USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Gila County
Silver King
Unconfirmed Silver Mixed Underground / Surface 2 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Gila
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former surface and underground Cu-Ag-Au-Pb-Mo mine located on 2 unpatented claims in the center E½ sec. 7, T10N, R10E, 0.2 miles N of Orchard Tank, about 2¼ miles SW of Payson and about 4.2 miles NNW of Oxbow Hill. Produced 1933-1934. Owned and opera…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 2 adit symbols
- Adit : Payson South , 1973
View individual source records (3)
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.
- 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
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Calcite
- Chlorite Group
- Chrysocolla
- Cuprite
- Epidote
- Hematite
- Limonite
- Malachite
View all 9 reported minerals
- Calcite
- Chlorite Group
- Chrysocolla
- Cuprite
- Epidote
- Hematite
- Limonite
- Malachite
- Native Gold
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 adit symbols (2)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 63361
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (9)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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