USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Cochise County
Windmill Group
Unconfirmed Uranium Mixed Underground / Surface 1 mapped shaft
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Cochise
- Mining district
- Whetstone
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Uranium
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Coronado Nf Whetstone Unit
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former surface and underground U mine located in the NE¼ sec. 10, T18S, R19E, on National Forest land. Mr. Bob Smith and Mr. Clifford Royston, California, had unspecified involvement here (1955). Scintillometer readings 100-450 CPS, background is …
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 : Mescal , 1973
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
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
- Bob Smith And Clifford Royston · Historical operator · 1955
Commodities & minerals
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: 188146
Supports:
- locality identity
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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