USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Santa Cruz County
Red Mountain Mine
Unconfirmed Aluminum Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Santa Cruz
- Mining district
- Harshaw District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Aluminum
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Red Mountain Project, Ten Grand Mine, Gem, Carlton Property
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Source classification: Underground operation documented
Specific physical workings are not yet documented in discrete records.
View individual source records (3)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- USGS MRDS working type: Surface/Underground
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface/Underground · work_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
- COMINCO AMERICAN RESOURCES INC · Historical operator · 1989
- Kerr-Mc Gee Oil Industries, Inc., Earth Sciences, Inc. · Historical operator · 1978
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Anhydrite
- Chlorite
- Epidote
- Magnetite
- Pyrophyllite
- Quartz
- Sericite
- Alunite
View all 18 reported minerals
- Anhydrite
- Chlorite
- Epidote
- Magnetite
- Pyrophyllite
- Quartz
- Sericite
- Alunite
- Bornite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Enargite
- Gold
- Kaolinite
- Molybdenite
- Pyrite
- Sphalerite
- Tetrahedrite
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
Related underground mines
Augusta Mine
Arizona · Santa Cruz County
Unconfirmed Lead Producer Underground
Historical mapped workings available
American Mine
Arizona · Santa Cruz County
Unconfirmed Silver Past Producer Underground
Historical mapped workings available
Alta Mine
Arizona · Santa Cruz County
Unconfirmed Lead Past Producer Underground
Historical mapped workings available
American Mine
Arizona · Santa Cruz County
Unconfirmed Copper Past Producer
Historical mapped workings available