Hydrothermal fault breccia deposit mined for lead, silver, zinc and iron. The mine opened in 1826 when the area was a part of the town of
, and so older references call it the Eaton lead mine. Madison became a separate town in 1852.
In 1870 the mine was operated by the Carroll County Lead and Zinc Mining Company. Twenty-two men were employed at that time, eleven above ground and eleven below ground. (Fogg, 1874)
34 entries listed. 30 valid minerals.
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Jackson, Charles (1844). Final Report on the Geology and Mineralogy of the State of New Hampshire.
Hitchcock, Charles (1869). First Annual Report upon the Geology and Mineralogy of the State of New Hampshire, p. 25.
Fogg, Alonzo J. (1874). Statistics and Gazetteer of New Hampshire
Rocks & Minerals (1947): 22: 1136.
Cox, Dennis P. (1970). Lead-zinc-silver deposits related to the White Mountain Plutonic Series in New Hampshire and Maine; USGS Bulletin 1312-D.
Smith, Art (2001). A Page From a Collector's Notebook: The
Wulfenite Mystery of the Madison Mine, Madison, Carroll County, New Hampshire.
Mineral News: 17(4): 1-8.
Smith, Art (2005). Madison Mine, Madison, Carroll County, New Hampshire,
Mineral News: 21(3): 1.
Smith, Art (2005). The Madison Mine, Madison, Carroll County, New Hampshire: An Addendum (2005)
The Backbender's Gazzette HGMS, January 2005.
Madison Historical Society (2008). Get the Lead Out: Story of the Madison Lead Mine, 72 pages.
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