6.5 miles away
Titan Missile Museum
A deactivated Titan II missile silo south of Tucson, and the only place in the country where a complete ICBM can be seen in place.
ASARCO Mineral Discovery Center
A Green Valley mining museum with exhibits on mining history and practice, open-pit mine tours, and a gift shop of local artisan work.
- Rank in Arizona
- #631of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 24.2 out of 100low confidence
- Category
- Museum
The ASARCO Mineral Discovery Center is a museum in Green Valley, Pima County, Arizona, with exhibits on the history and modern practices of mining. It conducts tours of an active open-pit mine and has a gift shop selling silver and copper arts and crafts made by local and Native American artisans.
Where it is
ASARCO Mineral Discovery Center is a museum near Green Valley, in Pima County. It is one of the museums in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
No official visitor count is published for ASARCO Mineral Discovery Center, so its score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. That is why the low confidence above is not higher. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page, and every axis is broken out under Facts and sources at the foot of this page.
Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.
Sources
- Coordinates and designations: Wikivoyage(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
- Official site: https://www.asarco.com/discovery-center/(opens in a new tab)
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
Nearby attractions
7.6 miles away
Mission San Xavier del Bac
A Spanish Catholic mission south of Tucson, founded in 1692 and rebuilt by 1797, making it the oldest European structure in Arizona.12 miles away
Tucson Speedway
A 0.375-mile paved oval racetrack at the Pima County Fairgrounds, one of only three paved ovals in Arizona.
12 miles away
Pima Air & Space Museum
An aerospace museum in Tucson displaying nearly 400 aircraft, and home to the Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame since 1991.
13 miles away
Veterans Memorial Stadium
The 11,500-seat main ballpark of Tucson's Kino Sports Complex, opened in 1998 and home to the Tucson Saguaros since 2016.
15 miles away
Sentinel Peak
A 2,897-foot peak south-west of downtown Tucson, carrying the University of Arizona's block letter A since the 1910s.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Museum
- Destination
- Green Valley
- County
- Pima County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 24.2 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- No data
- Significance score
- 55.0
- Confidence
- low
Visiting
- Official website
- asarco.com(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates
- 31.9979, -110.9957
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12