USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Cochise County
Tombstone Extension Mines
Unconfirmed Silver Underground 5 mapped shafts
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Cochise
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- La Grande, Carper, San Diego
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former medium-output underground Pb-Ag-Au-Cu-V group of mines located East-central sec. 13, T.20S. R.22E, and sec. 18, T20S, R23E, About 1½ miles SE of Tombstone, on private land. Owned at times, or in part, by the Woronoco Co., Tombstone Mining Co. …
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 3 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 5 shaft symbols
- Shaft : Tombstone , 1952
- Shaft : Tombstone , 1952
- Shaft : Tombstone , 1952
View individual source records (5)
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. -
Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
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): Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Underground · oper_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: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- Woronoco Mining Co, Tombstone Mining Co · Historical operator
- Asarco (American Smelting And Refining Co.) · Historical operator · 1954
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Anglesite
- Calcite
- Descloizite
- Galena
- Hematite
- Hemimorphite
- Jarosite
- Kaolinite
View all 12 reported minerals
- Anglesite
- Calcite
- Descloizite
- Galena
- Hematite
- Hemimorphite
- Jarosite
- Kaolinite
- Pyrolusite
- Silver-bearing Galena
- Vanadinite
- Wulfenite
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 (5)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 32993
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (12)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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