USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · La Paz County
Socorro Mine
Unconfirmed Gold Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- La Paz
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former surface and underground Au-Ag-Pb-Cu-Fe mine located in the SW¼ sec. 25, T5N, R12W, at the southern base of the Harquahala Mountains, about 11 road miles from Salome, and about 8 miles SE of Wenden, on BLM-administered land. Operated intermitte…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 4 shaft symbols
- 5 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- 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
- Klix · Historical operator
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Iron
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- Galena
- Gold-bearing Pyrite
- Jasper
View all 11 reported minerals
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Iron
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- Galena
- Gold-bearing Pyrite
- Jasper
- Native Gold
- Pyrite
- Quartz
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 (4)
- mapped adit symbols (5)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 33509
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (11)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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