USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Cochise County
Mary Mine
Unconfirmed Copper Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Cochise
- Mining district
- Turquoise District, Courtland-Gleeson 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 small Cu-Ag-Au-gemstone occurrence/mine located in the North-central sec. 21, T019S, R25E, G&SRM, ½ mile SE of Turquoise Mountain, near Courtland, on private land. Discovered and first produced in 1908. Owned at times, or in part, by the Great…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 70 shaft symbols
- 11 adit symbols
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
Operators / organizations
- Great Western Copper Co., Hope Mng. And Milng. Co. · Historical operator
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Chrysocolla
- Cuprite
- Gold
- Malachite
- Silver
- Allophane
- Azurite
- Calcite
View all 19 reported minerals
- Chrysocolla
- Cuprite
- Gold
- Malachite
- Silver
- Allophane
- Azurite
- Calcite
- Chalcoalumite
- Chrysocolla
- Cuprite
- Goethite
- Hematite
- Jarosite
- Limestone
- Limonite
- Malachite
- Plattnerite
- Wad
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 (70)
- mapped adit symbols (11)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 33029
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (14)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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Documented shaft evidence