USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Maricopa County
Maricopa Group
Unconfirmed Manganese Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Maricopa
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Manganese
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Maricopa County
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Maricopa County is in the south-central part of the U.S. state of Arizona. The county seat is Phoenix, the state capital and fifth-most populous city in the United States. Maricopa County was named after the Maricopa Native Americans. Five Native Am…
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Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Surface-Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Surface-Underground · oper_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: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Agate
- Carnelian
- Cerussite
- Cesàrolite
- Chalcedony
- Ferrierite-Na
- Fortification Agate
- Glushinskite
View all 12 reported minerals
- Agate
- Carnelian
- Cerussite
- Cesàrolite
- Chalcedony
- Ferrierite-Na
- Fortification Agate
- Glushinskite
- Lansfordite
- Minium
- Quartz
- Weddellite
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 16645
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (12)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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