USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
California · Inyo County
Empress
Unconfirmed Lead Underground
Key facts
- State
- California
- County
- Inyo
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Lead
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former Pb-Zn-Ag-Cu-Au occurrence/mine located in sec. 2, T19S, R41E, MDM, 2.2 km (1.3 miles) NNW of Zinc Hill (coordinates of record), on the N end of the Argus Range, on National Park Service wilderness land (Death Valley National Park/Death Valley …
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 2 shaft symbols
- 18 adit symbols
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
- Anglesite
- Antigorite
- Aurichalcite
- Azurite
- Caledonite
- Cerussite
- Chalcopyrite
View all 24 reported minerals
- Quartz
- Anglesite
- Antigorite
- Aurichalcite
- Azurite
- Caledonite
- Cerussite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chlorargyrite
- Chrysocolla
- Epidote
- Galena
- Garnet Group
- Hemimorphite
- Hydrozincite
- Leadhillite
- Linarite
- Malachite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Scheelite
- Smithsonite
- Sphalerite
- Wulfenite
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 (2)
- mapped adit symbols (18)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 27211
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (23)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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