USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Pima County
Linda Lee Claims
Mindat Confirmed Gold Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Pima
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A group of Au-U-Th-REE claims and former small surface and underground mine with surface and underground workings, located in sec. 12, T15S, R2E, 2 miles south of Covered Wells and 2¼ miles SSW of the Quijotoa Trading Post, on the eastern flank of the …
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 3 shaft symbols
View individual source records (3)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- USGS MRDS working type: Surface/Underground
- Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: A group of Au-U-Th-REE claims and former small surface and underground mine with surface and underground workings, located in sec. 12, T15S, R2E, 2 miles south of Covered We…
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface/Underground · work_type
Verification
Mindat Confirmed
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why confirmed?
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Gold
- Torbernite
- Actinolite
- Albite
- Allanite-(Ce)
- Andesine
- Apatite
- Calcite
View all 25 reported minerals
- Gold
- Torbernite
- Actinolite
- Albite
- Allanite-(Ce)
- Andesine
- Apatite
- Calcite
- Clinochlore
- Davidite
- Epidote
- Gummite
- Hematite
- Microcline
- Muscovite
- Oligoclase
- Orthoclase
- Quartz
- Rutile
- Sericite
- Spessartine
- Titanite
- Torbernite
- Tourmaline
- Uranophane
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)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 51275
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (23)
- underground workings
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