USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Pershing County
Florida Canyon Gold Mine
Unconfirmed Gold Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Pershing
- Mining district
- Imlay District
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Zortman Extension, West Trend Orebody, Madre Vein, Northeast Trend
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Source classification: Underground operation documented
Specific physical workings are not yet documented in discrete records.
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 4 shaft symbols
- 9 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Surface-Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Producer): Surface-Underground · oper_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Producer
Operators / organizations
- Florida Canyon Mining, Inc. · Historical operator · 1995
- Apollo Gold Corporation · Historical operator · 2004
- Pegasus Gold Corp. · Historical operator · 1990
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Adularia
- Alunite
- Arsenopyrite
- Barite
- Calcite
- Cinnabar
- Fluorite
- Goethite
View all 20 reported minerals
- Adularia
- Alunite
- Arsenopyrite
- Barite
- Calcite
- Cinnabar
- Fluorite
- Goethite
- Hematite
- Kaolinite
- Limonite
- Magnetite
- Marcasite
- Opal
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Sulfur
- Electrum
- Gold
- Kaolinite
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 (9)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
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