USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
California · San Bernardino County
Ord Mountain Copper Mine
Unconfirmed Copper Underground
Key facts
- State
- California
- County
- San Bernardino
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Copper
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Ord Mountain Copper Group, Osborn Group
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Source classification: Underground operation documented
Specific physical workings are not yet documented in discrete records.
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 21 shaft symbols
- 12 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
- 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
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- Consolidated Virginia Mining Co 1927-1929 · Historical operator
- H. J. Stevewnson 1942 · Historical operator
- Open Land Bureau Of Land Management. · Historical operator · 1978
- St. Joseph Lead Co. Leased 1920-1925 · Historical operator
- Nippissing Mining Co. · Historical operator · 1978
- Phelps Dodge Co 1958-Geophysical Work · Historical operator · 1978
- J. A. Thiede 1957-1961 · Historical operator · 1978
- Osborn, J. L. · Historical operator · 1978
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Azurite
- Bornite
- Calcite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chlorite
- Epidote
- Gold
View all 15 reported minerals
- Azurite
- Bornite
- Calcite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chlorite
- Epidote
- Gold
- Limonite
- Malachite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Scheelite
- Sericite
- Tetrahedrite
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 (21)
- mapped adit symbols (12)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
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