USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Lander County
Conquest
Source Corroborated Tungsten Underground 4 mapped shafts
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Lander
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Tungsten
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
T17N R46E Deposit: Scheelite-bearing tactite block. The deposit is developed by open pits and shallow shafts along an ore zone that strikes north and dips moderately to steeply west. Although the ore shoots that have been mined were small, the grade w…
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features · Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 4 shaft symbols
- Shaft : Spencer Hot Springs , 1989
View individual source records (4)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Shaft
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: N R46E Deposit: Scheelite-bearing tactite block. The deposit is developed by open pits and shallow shafts along an ore zone that stri…
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Underground · oper_type
Verification
Source Corroborated
Additional historical source evidence corroborates this record. This is not a member field verification of current conditions.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Calcite
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Molybdenum
- commodity:Tungsten
- Epidote
- Garnet Group
- Granite
- Marble
View all 14 reported minerals
- Calcite
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Molybdenum
- commodity:Tungsten
- Epidote
- Garnet Group
- Granite
- Marble
- Molybdenite
- Powellite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Scheelite
- Tactite
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 (4)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 59962
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (14)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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Documented shaft evidence