USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Cochise County
Silver Cloud Mine
Unconfirmed Copper Underground 1 mapped shaft 2 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Cochise
- Mining district
- Middle Pass District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Copper
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Coronado Nf Dragoon Unit
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former small underground Cu-Pb-Zn-Ag-Au mine located in West-central sec. 25, T18S, R23E (Black Diamond Peak 7.5 minute topo map), approximately 1½ miles (2.2 km) SW of Black Diamond Peak, on private land. Produced 1921-1934. Operators included H. Hu…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features -
Shaft
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 shaft symbol
- 2 adit symbols
- Adit : Black Diamond Peak , 1985
- Adit : Black Diamond Peak , 1985
- Shaft : Black Diamond Peak , 1985
View individual source records (5)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
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
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- Escapule · Historical operator · 1955
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Acanthite
- Anglesite
- Aurichalcite
- Calcite
- Cerussite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chlorargyrite
- Galena
View all 23 reported minerals
- Acanthite
- Anglesite
- Aurichalcite
- Calcite
- Cerussite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chlorargyrite
- Galena
- Goethite
- Hematite
- Hemimorphite
- Leadhillite
- Limonite
- Malachite
- Manganese Dendrites
- Manganese Oxides
- Native Silver
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Rosasite
- Sphalerite
- Willemite
- Wollastonite
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)
- mapped adit symbols (2)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 32801
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (23)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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