USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Yavapai County
Oro Grande
Source Corroborated Gold Underground 3 mapped shafts 2 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Yavapai
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Also known as
- Frenchman Patented, May Patented, Platna Grande Group
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former underground Au-Ag-Cu mine located 4½ miles North of Wickenburg. Started in the 1870's. Discovered by [?] and owned by G.B. Upton (1900- ); Oro Grande Consolidated Mines (1929-1934). Produced 1904-1932. Mineralization is a tabular ore bod…
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.
- 3 shaft symbols
- 2 adit symbols
- Shaft : Sam Powell Peak , 1969
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.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Underground · oper_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
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Bornite
- Calcite
- Chalcedony
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chrysocolla
- Hematite
- Jarosite
View all 13 reported minerals
- Bornite
- Calcite
- Chalcedony
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chrysocolla
- Hematite
- Jarosite
- Limonite
- Malachite
- Muscovite
- Native Gold
- Quartz
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 (3)
- mapped adit symbols (2)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 52547
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (13)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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