USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Cochise County
White Tail Deer Mine
Source Corroborated Copper Mixed Underground / Surface 6 mapped shafts 1 mapped adit
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Cochise
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Copper
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former small surface and underground Cu-Ag-Au mine located in West-central (SW¼SW¼NW¼) sec. 21, T.23S., R.24E. (Bisbee 7.5 minute topo map), on private land. Owned by the Phelps Dodge Corp. Mineralization is a replacement deposit with oxidized cop…
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.
- 6 shaft symbols
- 1 adit symbol
- Shaft : Bisbee , 1958
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.
- 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
Source Corroborated
Additional historical source evidence corroborates this record. This is not a member field verification of current conditions.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- Phelps Dodge Corp · Historical operator · 1979
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Bornite
- Braunite
- Calcite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
View all 16 reported minerals
- Bornite
- Braunite
- Calcite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- Coronadite
- Hausmannite
- Hetaerolite
- Hübnerite
- Malachite
- Neltnerite
- Pyrite
- Tilasite
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 (6)
- mapped adit symbols (1)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 33209
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (16)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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