USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Yavapai County
Southern Cross Mine
Unconfirmed Gold Underground 1 mapped shaft
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Yavapai
- Mining district
- Crosby District
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former surface and underground Au-Ag-Pb-Cu mine located in the N½ sec. 32, .14N., R.10W. (Kaiser Spring SE 7.5 minute topo map), south of Grayback Mountain. Produced 1932-1941. Mineralization is a vein deposit with a tabular ore body hosted in the…
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 : Grayback Mts. , 1980
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.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_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: Producer
Operators / organizations
- Thompson, T. E., Grey, C. C. · Historical operator
- R. L. Gray (1940'S) · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Limonite
- Quartz
- Copper
- Gold
- Limonite
- 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 shaft symbols (1)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 54740
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (2)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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