USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Maricopa County
Homestake Group
Unconfirmed Gold Mixed Underground / Surface 3 mapped shafts 3 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Maricopa
- Mining district
- Red Picacho District
- Development status
- Occurrence
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Monike Mines Co ?
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Ref.: Dale, V.B. (1959), Tungsten deposits of Yuma, Maricopa, Pinal, and Graham Cos., AZ, US Bur. Mines Rept. Inv. 5516: 34-35; AZ Bur. Geol. Min. Tech. clippings files; AZ Bur. Geol. Min. Tech.-US Bur. Mines file data; USGS Red Picacho map; AZ Dept. …
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 3 shaft symbols
- 3 adit symbols
- Shaft : Red Picacho , 1964
- Shaft : Red Picacho , 1964
View individual source records (4)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- USGS MRDS working type: Surface/Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface/Underground · work_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Occurrence
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Epidote
- Garnet
- Gold
- Scheelite
- commodity:Copper
- Epidote
- Garnet Group
- Native Gold
View all 9 reported minerals
- Epidote
- Garnet
- Gold
- Scheelite
- commodity:Copper
- Epidote
- Garnet Group
- Native Gold
- Scheelite
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Type: Historical mapped physical features
Dataset: DOI 10.5066/P9TAALR6
Supports:
- mapped shaft symbols (3)
- mapped adit symbols (3)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 106986
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (5)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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