USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · La Paz County
Riverview Mine
Unconfirmed Silver Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- La Paz
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Eureka, Old Selby Bonanza
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A small former surface and underground Pb-Ag-Zn-Au-Fe mine located in the NE¼ sec. 31, T4S, R22W, a short distance N of the Colorado River, on federal land. Started about 1875. Owned at times, or in part, by Selby; Ferguson; Sentenac Mines Co.; Rivervi…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 shaft symbol
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): Surface-Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Surface-Underground · oper_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
- Rocher · Historical operator
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Calcite
- Cerussite
- Chlorite Group
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Iron
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
View all 15 reported minerals
- Calcite
- Cerussite
- Chlorite Group
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Iron
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Galena
- Limonite
- Manganese-bearing Calcite
- Marmatite
- Pyrite
- Smithsonite
- Sphalerite
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 (1)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 33804
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (15)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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