USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Cochise County
Maid of Sunshine Mine
Unconfirmed Copper Underground
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Cochise
- Mining district
- Turquoise District
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Copper
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former small underground Cu-Ag-Au mine located in the SW ¼ sec. 16, T.19S., R.25E, ½ mile SE of Turquoise Mountain, on private land. Produced 1913-1929. Owned/operated, or in part, by the Leadville Mining Co., Calumet & Arizona Mining Co. and the Phe…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 77 shaft symbols
- 12 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Chrysocolla
- Cuprite
- Gold
- Malachite
- Silver
- Allophane
- Aurichalcite
- Azurite
View all 36 reported minerals
- Chrysocolla
- Cuprite
- Gold
- Malachite
- Silver
- Allophane
- Aurichalcite
- Azurite
- Braunite
- Brochantite
- Calcite
- Chalcoalumite
- Chalcophanite
- Chlorargyrite
- Chrysocolla
- Covellite
- Crednerite
- Cuprite
- Cyanotrichite
- Glaucocerinite
- Goethite
- Gypsum
- Libethenite
- Limonite
- Linarite
- Malachite
- Native Copper
- Opal
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Rosasite
- Smithsonite
- Spangolite
- Talc
- Tenorite
- Woodwardite
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 (77)
- mapped adit symbols (12)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 7904
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (31)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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