USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Cochise County
Republic Mine
Source Corroborated Copper Underground 5 mapped shafts
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Cochise
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Copper
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former small underground Cu-Zn-Ag-W-Pb-Au-Mo-Bi-Be mine located in East-central sec. 26, T.15S., R.22E, 5.5 miles NNW of Dragoon; on SE edge of the town of Johnson, 2 miles NE of the Primrose Mine, on private land. Produced 1882-1952. Owned in part, …
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.
- 5 shaft symbols
- Shaft : Dragoon , 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.
- 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
Operators / organizations
- Arizona Consol Mng Co, Coronado Copper And Zinc Co · Historical operator
- Black Prince Copper Co, Arizona United Mining Co · Historical operator
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Bornite
- Calcite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chlorite Group
- commodity:Copper
- Diopside
- Galena
- Garnet Group
View all 18 reported minerals
- Bornite
- Calcite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chlorite Group
- commodity:Copper
- Diopside
- Galena
- Garnet Group
- Magnetite
- Molybdenite
- Native Copper
- Orthoclase
- Pyrite
- Scheelite
- Sphalerite
- Tetrahedrite Subgroup
- Thulite
- Zoisite
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 (5)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 32611
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (18)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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