USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Clark County
Argentena
Unconfirmed Zinc Underground
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Clark
- Mining district
- Goodsprings District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Zinc
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Argentina, Argenta
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 34 T24S R58E. Zn Pb Ag Au Cu V. Geology: The ore bodies lie in breccia zones parallel to subparallel to the bedding. Bedding strikes northward, and dips between N10E in the east to N10W in the west due to the broad anticline. Hydrozincite is at…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 shaft symbol
- 10 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Underground · oper_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- Complex Metals Corp. · Historical operator · 1960
- Argentena Consolidated Mining Co. · Source-reported owner · 1954
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Anglesite
- Barite
- Baryte
- Calamine
- Cerussite
- Cinnabar
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
View all 22 reported minerals
- Anglesite
- Barite
- Baryte
- Calamine
- Cerussite
- Cinnabar
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Vanadium
- commodity:Zinc
- Descloizite
- Galena
- Hemimorphite
- Hydrozincite
- Massicot
- Mimetite
- Mottramite
- Phosphohedyphane
- Smithsonite
- Sphalerite
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)
- mapped adit symbols (10)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 61535
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (21)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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