USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Yavapai County
United Verde Mine
Unconfirmed Copper Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Yavapai
- Mining district
- Verde District
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Copper
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Hull, Big Hole, Hopewell Tunnel
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former surface and underground Cu-Pb-Au-Ag-Zn mine located in the center sec. 22, T.16N., R.2E. (Clarkdale 7.5 minute topo map). Discovered 1875. Started about 1876. First produced 1883. Claims extend into the NW¼, the N½SW¼ and the W½W½NE¼ of sec. 2…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 5 shaft symbols
- 2 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- USGS MRDS working type: Surface/Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface/Underground · work_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: Producer
Operators / organizations
- Phelps Dodge Corp. · Historical operator
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Ankerite
- Chlorite
- Dolomite
- Jasper
- Limonite
- Quartz
- Sericite
- Bornite
View all 40 reported minerals
- Ankerite
- Chlorite
- Dolomite
- Jasper
- Limonite
- Quartz
- Sericite
- Bornite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Copper
- Cuprite
- Galena
- Gold
- Pyrrhotite
- Silver
- Sphalerite
- Tennantite
- Allophane
- Aluminous Coquimbite
- Alunogen
- Ankerite
- Antlerite
- Arsenolite
- Arsenopyrite
- Atacamite
- Azurite
- Bornite
- Brochantite
- Brunsvigite
- Butlerite
- Calcite
- Chalcanthite
- Chalcoalumite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chamosite
- Chlorite Group
- Claudetite
- Clinochlore
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)
- mapped adit symbols (2)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Arizona Geological Survey / ADMMR
Type: Historical mine documents
Record: 3 historical documents
Supports:
- historical mine identity
- historical mine documentation
View 3 citations
- United Verde Mine
- United Verde (1946)
- United Verde (1946)
Historical documentation does not imply current access or open workings.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 3346
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (22)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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