USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Yavapai County
Little Egypt Mine
Unconfirmed Copper Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Yavapai
- Mining district
- Agua Fria District
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Copper
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former surface and underground Cu-Ag mine. Produced 1918-1919. Mineralization is a lens-shaped ore body. Ore control was stratigraphy. Ore concentration was oxidation at near surface. Alteration was sericitization and chloritization. Area struc…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 adit symbol
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- 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: Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Chlorite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Sericite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chlorite Group
- Muscovite
View all 10 reported minerals
- Chlorite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Sericite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chlorite Group
- Muscovite
- Pyrite
- Sericite
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 adit symbols (1)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 51310
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (5)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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