USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Pershing County
De Soto Mine
Unconfirmed Silver Underground
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Pershing
- Mining district
- Star District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 22 T31N R34E. One of the Bonanza silver mines of the district. Structure: Pre-Minerafault Fissures, Fault Block Deposit: Located in 1861. The property includes the star peak, star peak no. 2, star peak no. 3, silver reef, woolcott, hydenfeldt, de…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 adit symbol
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_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
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Quartz
- Chalcopyrite
- Freibergite
- Galena
- Gold
- Jamesonite
- Pyrargyrite
- Pyrite
View all 32 reported minerals
- Quartz
- Chalcopyrite
- Freibergite
- Galena
- Gold
- Jamesonite
- Pyrargyrite
- Pyrite
- Sphalerite
- Stibnite
- Tetrahedrite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chlorargyrite
- commodity:Antimony
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Freibergite Subgroup
- Galena
- Jamesonite
- Limestone
- Native Gold
- Owyheeite
- Pyrargyrite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Rhyolite
- Sphalerite
- Stibnite
- Tetrahedrite Subgroup
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 adit symbols (1)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 58767
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (21)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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Historical mapped workings available