USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Gila County
Miami East
Unconfirmed Copper Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Gila
- Mining district
- Globe-Miami District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Copper
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former surface and underground Cu-Ag-Au-Mo mine located in the S½ sec. 19, T1N, R15E (Globe 7.5 minute topo map), 2 kilometers NE of Miami, 3 kilometers E of the Miami-Inspiration sites. Discovered 1969. Operated by the Cyprus Miami Operators. Magma …
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 6 shaft symbols
- 3 adit symbols
View individual source records (3)
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, Surface · work_type
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): 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
Operators / organizations
- BHP BILLITON GROUP · Historical operator · 2009
- Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd. · Historical operator · 1996
- Newmont Mining Corporation · Historical operator · 1983
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Chalcopyrite
- Galena
- Gold
- Molybdenite
- Pyrite
- Silver
- Azurite
- Bornite
View all 23 reported minerals
- Chalcopyrite
- Galena
- Gold
- Molybdenite
- Pyrite
- Silver
- Azurite
- Bornite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chrysocolla
- Copper
- Covellite
- Cuprite
- Galena
- Malachite
- Molybdenite
- Muscovite
- Native Copper
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Sericite
- Sphalerite
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 (6)
- mapped adit symbols (3)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Arizona Geological Survey / ADMMR
Type: Historical mine documents
Record: 2 historical documents
Supports:
- historical mine identity
- historical mine documentation
View 2 citations
- Miami East
- Miami East (1969)
Historical documentation does not imply current access or open workings.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 16279
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (15)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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