USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Cochise County
Legal Tender Prospect
Mindat Confirmed Copper Underground 1 mapped shaft
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Cochise
- Mining district
- Cochise District
- Development status
- Occurrence
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Copper
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A small surface and underground Cu prospect with underground workings located in the NE ¼ sec. 6, T.16S., R.23E. (Dragoon 7.5 minute topo map), 3.5 miles north of Dragoon, and 2.5 miles SE of Johnson. Owned by Mrs. Thomas Adams of Dragoon, AZ (1955-). …
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 shaft symbol
- Shaft : Dragoon , 1985
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.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: A small surface and underground Cu prospect with underground workings located in the NE ¼ sec. 6, T.16S., R.23E. (Dragoon 7.5 minute topo map), 3.5 miles north of Dragoon, a…
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type
Verification
Mindat Confirmed
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why confirmed?
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Occurrence
Operators / organizations
- Mrs. Thomas Adams · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Diopside
- Garnet
- Wollastonite
- Chrysocolla
- Chrysocolla
- Diopside
- Garnet Group
- Wollastonite
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 (1)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 32442
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (4)
- underground workings
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