USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Mohave County
Mccracken Mine
Unconfirmed Silver Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Mohave
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Mccracken Lead Mine, Signal-Senator, Blacksmith Tunnel
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former Ag-Pb-Au-Zn-Baryte-Cu occurrence/mine located in the NE¼ sec. 25, T13N, R15W, G&SRM, about 12 miles West of Signal at McCracken Peak, on Bureau of Land Management administered land. Discovered in 1874 by McCracken and Owens. The property is co…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 14 shaft symbols
- 15 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: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Barite
- Calcite
- Dolomite
- Quartz
- Siderite
- Anglesite
- Galena
- Anglesite
View all 27 reported minerals
- Barite
- Calcite
- Dolomite
- Quartz
- Siderite
- Anglesite
- Galena
- Anglesite
- Baryte
- Calcite
- Cerussite
- commodity:Barite (Barytes)
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Diorite
- Dolomite
- Fluorite
- Galena
- Hematite
- Hemimorphite
- Mica schist
- Pegmatite
- Quartz
- Siderite
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 (14)
- mapped adit symbols (15)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 39516
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (20)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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Documented shaft evidence