USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Cochise County
Mammoth Mine
Unconfirmed Zinc Underground 5 mapped shafts 2 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Cochise
- Mining district
- Cochise District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Zinc
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former small underground Cu-Zn-Ag-Pb-Mo-Bi-Be-Baryte mine located in the SW ¼ sec. 23 (& NW¼ sec. 26 ?), T.15S., R.22E. (Dragoon 7.5 minute topo map), ¾ mile NW of the town of Johnson, 1.7 km SE of Johnson Peak, on private land. Discovered 1881. Firs…
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.
- 5 shaft symbols
- 2 adit symbols
- Shaft : Dragoon , 1958
View individual source records (3)
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
- 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: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Calcite
- Diopside
- Garnet
- Limonite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Wollastonite
- Bornite
View all 26 reported minerals
- Calcite
- Diopside
- Garnet
- Limonite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Wollastonite
- Bornite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Covellite
- Malachite
- Sphalerite
- Bornite
- Calcite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Covellite
- Diopside
- Garnet Group
- Limonite
- Malachite
- Native Copper
- Pyrite
- Sphalerite
- 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 (5)
- mapped adit symbols (2)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 32501
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (13)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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