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Cerro Colorado Mining District

  Mine6MRDS4 Visited 
 

Asmoa #1 mine

    
1

Black Princess mine

 x 2026-02-21
 

Blue Heaven mine

    
2

Cerro Colorado mine

    
 

Cerro Colorado mountains Perlite deposite

    
 

Cerro Colorado Zeolite (clinoptilolite)

    
 

Charles mine

    
 

El Dorado group

    
2

Heintzelman mine (Silver Queen mine)

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Hidden Treasure mine

    
 

Invalible Sic claim, see Liberty Bell

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Las Guijas mountain (Gismo claims)

    
 

L C group

 x 2026-02-21
 

Liberty Bell mine

    
3

Liberty mine

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Lillie group

    
 

Lone Star group

    
 

Mail Box group

    
4

Mary G

(Mary E mine, Princess group)

    
5

New Colorado mine

    
 

San Clement mine

    
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Silver Hill (Gold Coin mine)

    
7

Silver Shield

(Colorado Clark mine)

    
  Unnamed Shaft 1   2026-02-21
  Unnamed Shaft 2   2026-02-21
  Unnamed Shaft 3   2026-02-21
  Unnamed Shaft 4   2026-02-26
  Unnamed Shaft 5   2026-02-26
  Unnamed Trench 1   2026-02-26
 

Waterman group

    

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Production from the Cerro Colorado mineral district7

Mine YearsOre / short tons Copper / lbs. Lead / lbs. Gold / oz. Silver / oz.
Betty Jane 1956 37 200 0 1 743
Black Princess 1927 - 1937 72 715 175 12 1,458
Cerro Colorado 1858 - 1937 3,627 5,499 9,486 17 257,804
Guadalupe 1933 1 0 189 0 54
Mary G - Mary E 1928 - 1950 753 9,375 17,627 16 46,394
New Colorado 1929 - 1937 7 207 2,533 2 845
Princess Group 1927 9 681 2,324 0 2,344
San Clements 1926 1 0 143 0 14
Silver Hill 1929 - 1939 84 3,186 2,918 11 2,461
Silver Shield 1955 1 0 0 0 55
Unknown Killna 1927 10 234 3.025 2 902
Unknown Concepcion Rodri 1933 5 579 0 4 1
Total 1958 - 1956 4,607 20,676 38,420 65 313,075

Cerro Colorado District and its mines not in Schrader or on 1914 map

Link to Cerro Colorado graveyard report

Cerro Colorado mine dump, copyright Ronald Deblois.6

References

  1. Mineral Appraisal of Coronado National Forest, Part 12, Santa Rita Mountains Unit, MLA11-94 (1994). SR 591-609
    http://repository.azgs.az.gov/sites/default/files/dlio/files/nid1813/usbm_mla_011-94.pdf
  2. Mining in the Santa Rita and Patagonia Mountains of Arizona, U.S. Department of Interior, 1915. Republished 2014 by Kerby Jackson.
  3. Mike Bertram,
  4. USGS Mineral Resources Data System - using WGS84 (https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/map-commodity.html#home)
  5. Index of Mining Properties in Pima County by Staton B. Keith, bulletin 189, Arizona Geological Survey, 1974
  6. Mindat.org
  7. Arizona Mineral Districts v.2 Pima County by Jan C. Rasmussen and Stanley B. Keith.