USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Maricopa County
Story
Unconfirmed Lead Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Maricopa
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Lead
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Saddle Mountain Mine, Tri-Metals Mine
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A surface and underground Pb-Au-Ag-Pyrite mine.
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 2 shaft symbols
- 8 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
- C. O. Carlson · Source-reported owner · 1964
- Fredrickson, A. A. · Source-reported owner · 1964
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Arsenopyrite
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- Geocronite
- Gossan
- Pyrite
- Quartz
View all 11 reported minerals
- Arsenopyrite
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- Geocronite
- Gossan
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Rhyolite
- Sphalerite
- Tourmaline
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 (2)
- mapped adit symbols (8)
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Record: 1 historical document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: 63402
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (11)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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