USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Clark County
Contact Mine
Source Corroborated Zinc Underground 4 mapped shafts 3 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Clark
- Mining district
- Goodsprings District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Zinc
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 21 22 T23S R58E Pb, Zn, Ag Structure: Large Scale Overthrusting Thrust Fault, Beds Form South Pitching Anticline Deposit type: Polymetallic replacement Geology: Dolomite breccia in zone parallel to bullion dolomite member bedding beneath the cont…
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 4 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features -
Adit
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 4 shaft symbols
- 3 adit symbols
- Shaft : Goodsprings , 1960
- Shaft : Cottonwood Pass , 1989
- Shaft : Cottonwood Pass , 1989
- Shaft : Goodsprings , 1960
- Adit : Cottonwood Pass , 1989
- Adit : Cottonwood Pass , 1989
View individual source records (8)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- 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
- Aurichalcite
- Calamine
- Cerussite
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Vanadium
- commodity:Zinc
- Copper-bearing Descloizite
View all 16 reported minerals
- Aurichalcite
- Calamine
- Cerussite
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Vanadium
- commodity:Zinc
- Copper-bearing Descloizite
- Cuprodescloizite
- Descloizite
- Dolostone
- Galena
- Hemimorphite
- Heterogenite
- Hydrozincite
- Smithsonite
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)
- mapped adit symbols (3)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 61548
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (16)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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