USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Mineral County
Drew Mine
Source Corroborated Mercury Underground 4 mapped shafts 4 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Mineral
- Mining district
- Pilot Mountains District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Mercury
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Also known as
- Red Devils, Bugg and Drew, Farnham and Drew
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Cinnabar Canyon Thrust Fault Lost Steers Thrust Fault Alteration: Silicification Tectonics: Basin And Range Deposit: Shears parallel bedding planes Deposit type: Barite-fluorite veins Geology: Triassic sedimentary and volcanic rocks were…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features -
Shaft
— 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
- 4 adit symbols
- Shaft : Bettles Well , 1980
- Adit : Bettles Well , 1980
- Adit : Bettles Well , 1980
- Shaft : Bettles Well , 1980
View individual source records (6)
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.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_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
Operators / organizations
- Anderson, A. J. And Spencer, L. B. · Historical operator
- Mrs. Emily Phillips · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Calcite
- Olivenite
- Bindheimite
- Calamine
- Gold
- Malachite
- Silver
- Sphalerite
View all 34 reported minerals
- Calcite
- Olivenite
- Bindheimite
- Calamine
- Gold
- Malachite
- Silver
- Sphalerite
- Stibiconite
- Andesite
- Azurite
- Bindheimite
- Brochantite
- Calamine
- Calcite
- Chrysocolla
- Cinnabar
- commodity:Antimony
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Mercury
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Hemimorphite
- Limestone
- Malachite
- Native Gold
- Native Silver
- Olivenite
- Quartz
- Rhyolite
- Sphalerite
- Stibiconite
- Stibnite
- Valentinite
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 (4)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 39753
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (25)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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