USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Maricopa County
Snowball
Unconfirmed Fluorine-Fluorite Mixed Underground / Surface 1 mapped shaft
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Maricopa
- Mining district
- Ellsworth District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Fluorine-Fluorite
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
‡Ref.: Anthony, J.W., et al (1995), Mineralogy of Arizona, 3rd.ed.: 223; Denton, T.C. & C.A. Kumke (1949), Investigation of Snowball fluorite deposit, Maricopa Co., AZ, US Bur. Mines Rept. Inv. 4540; Hewett, D.F. (1964), Veins of hypogene manganese oxi…
Additional documented workings
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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
- Shaft : Weldon Hill , 1990
View individual source records (3)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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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): 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
- Southern Mines And Milling 5117 N Scottsdale Rd. Phoenix · Source-reported owner · 1975
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Amphibole
- Baryte
- Bornite
- Calcite
- Feldspar
- Feldspar Group
- Fluorite
- Hematite
View all 12 reported minerals
- Amphibole
- Baryte
- Bornite
- Calcite
- Feldspar
- Feldspar Group
- Fluorite
- Hematite
- Limonite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Siderite
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.
Arizona Geological Survey / ADMMR
Type: Historical mine documents
Record: 1 historical document
Supports:
- historical mine identity
- historical mine documentation
Historical documentation does not imply current access or open workings.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 54719
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (9)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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