USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Yuma County
Yellow Breast Prospect
Mindat Confirmed Lead Underground 2 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Yuma
- Mining district
- Gila Bend Mountains District
- Development status
- Occurrence
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Lead
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A Pb-F-Ag-Mo prospect with underground workings located in the SW¼ sec. 15, T2S, R11W, 4 miles ESE of Clanton Well, about ¾ mile NE of the Bill Taft workings, on BLM-administered land. A gravel-mantled pediment locally exposes calcareous schist that…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 2 adit symbols
- Adit : Eagletail Mts. , 1962
View individual source records (4)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: A Pb-F-Ag-Mo prospect with underground workings located in the SW¼ sec. 15, T2S, R11W, 4 miles ESE of Clanton Well, about ¾ mile NE of the Bill Taft workings, on BLM-adminis…
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type
Verification
Mindat Confirmed
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why confirmed?
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Occurrence
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Fluorite
- Quartz
- Anglesite
- Galena
- Wulfenite
- Anglesite
- Cerussite
- Chert
View all 12 reported minerals
- Fluorite
- Quartz
- Anglesite
- Galena
- Wulfenite
- Anglesite
- Cerussite
- Chert
- Fluorite
- Galena
- Massicot
- 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 adit symbols (2)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 42494
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (7)
- underground workings
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