USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Pinal County
Silver Bell-Martinez Mine
Unconfirmed Silver Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Pinal
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Columbia, Silver-Bell, Martinez
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Source classification: Underground operation documented
Specific physical workings are not yet documented in discrete records.
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 6 shaft symbols
- 4 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- USGS MRDS working type: Surface/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
- Bail, Own And Wingfield (B. O. W.) Mining Co. · Historical operator / Source-reported owner
- J. W. Wingfield, Paul Bryant, Richard Malik · Historical operator
- Sunbeam Gold Mining Co. · Historical operator
- United Arizona Mines · Historical operator
- Wall, O. H. · Historical operator
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Fluorite
- Quartz
- Anglesite
- Cerargyrite
- Chrysocolla
- Embolite
- Galena
- Hematite
View all 10 reported minerals
- Fluorite
- Quartz
- Anglesite
- Cerargyrite
- Chrysocolla
- Embolite
- Galena
- Hematite
- Limonite
- Pyromorphite
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 (6)
- mapped adit symbols (4)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Arizona Geological Survey / ADMMR
Type: Historical mine documents
Record: 2 historical documents
Supports:
- historical mine identity
- historical mine documentation
View 2 citations
Historical documentation does not imply current access or open workings.
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