USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Pinal County
San Manuel Mine
Unconfirmed Copper Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Pinal
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Copper
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Kalamazoo, Magma Copper Copany PropertyKalamazoo
- Quarelli Group, Apex Lead & Vanadium Mining Corp., San Manuel
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: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface, Underground · work_type
- 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
- Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd. · Source-reported owner · 1996
- BHP BILLITON GROUP · Historical operator · 2003
- Quintana Minerals Corp. · Historical operator · 1967
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Alunite
- Barite
- Biotite
- Chlorite
- Fluorite
- Goethite
- Kaolinite
- Quartz
View all 25 reported minerals
- Alunite
- Barite
- Biotite
- Chlorite
- Fluorite
- Goethite
- Kaolinite
- Quartz
- Sericite
- Atacamite
- Bornite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chrysocolla
- Copper
- Covellite
- Cuprite
- Gold
- Magnetite
- Malachite
- Molybdenite
- Pyrite
- Rutile
- Silver
- Wulfenite
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
Arizona Geological Survey / ADMMR
Type: Historical mine documents
Record: 4 historical documents
Supports:
- historical mine identity
- historical mine documentation
View 4 citations
- San Manuel Mine (1949)
- San Manuel Mine (1985)
- San Manuel (1943)
- San Manuel (1948)
Historical documentation does not imply current access or open workings.
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