USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Cochise County
Night Hawk Mine
Source Corroborated Copper Underground 7 mapped shafts
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Cochise
- Mining district
- Warren District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Copper
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former medium output underground Cu-Ag-Au mine located in West-central (NW¼NE¼SW¼) sec. 21, T.23S., R.24E, 0.6 miles SSE of Mt Reilly, on private land. Produced 1923-1930. Operated at times, or in part, by the Phelps Dodge Corp. and the Night Hawk Le…
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 7 shaft symbols
- Shaft : Bisbee , 1958
View individual source records (3)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type
Verification
Source Corroborated
Additional historical source evidence corroborates this record. This is not a member field verification of current conditions.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- Phelps Dodge Corp., Night Hawk Leasing Co. · Historical operator
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Bornite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Cuprite
- Silver
- Bornite
View all 13 reported minerals
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Bornite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Cuprite
- Silver
- Bornite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Cuprite
- Limonite
- Pyrite
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 (7)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 33200
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (6)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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