USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · La Paz County
Mineral Hill Mine
Unconfirmed Copper Underground
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- La Paz
- Mining district
- Planet District
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Copper
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Continental
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former underground Cu-Fe-Ag-Au (Be) mine located in sec. 3, in the SE¼ sec. 2, NE¼ & East-central sec. 10, & NW¼ sec. 11, T10N, R17W, 2.5 miles from Planet and 20 miles N of Bouse, on private land. First produced in 1900 and closed in 1970. Owned by …
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 shaft symbol
- 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: 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: Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Quartz
- Bornite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chrysocolla
- Malachite
- Pyrite
- Azurite
- Bornite
View all 16 reported minerals
- Quartz
- Bornite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chrysocolla
- Malachite
- Pyrite
- Azurite
- Bornite
- Brochantite
- Calcite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chrysocolla
- Hematite
- Malachite
- Pyrite
- Specularite
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 (1)
- mapped adit symbols (11)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 33775
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (10)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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