USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Storey County
Justice Shaft
Mindat Confirmed Silver Underground
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Storey
- Mining district
- Comstock Lode
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former Ag-Au mine. Deposit: The justice claim had a shaft 1200 feet deep by 1879. Ore production from the 100-ft to the 1000-ft levels was 183,000 tons with a value of $3,500,000 dollars. About one-tenth as much was produced in the next 30 years, an…
Additional documented workings
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Level
— documented in 1 source record,
noting 1000 ft, 1200 ft deep.
Mindat -
Shaft
— documented in 1 source record,
noting 1200 ft deep.
Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 21 shaft symbols
- 9 adit symbols
View individual source records (4)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Level
· length 1000 ft
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: The justice claim had a shaft 1200 feet deep by 1879. Ore production from the 100-ft to the 1000-ft levels was 183,000 tons with a va… -
Shaft
· depth 1200 ft
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: A former Ag-Au mine. Deposit: The justice claim had a shaft 1200 feet deep by 1879. Ore production from the 100-ft to the 1000-ft lev…
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Underground · oper_type
Verification
Mindat Confirmed
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why confirmed?
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
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
- Acanthite
- Andesite
- Calcite
- Chalcedony
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Iron
View all 22 reported minerals
- Acanthite
- Andesite
- Calcite
- Chalcedony
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Iron
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Electrum
- Galena
- Goethite
- Jarosite
- Kaolinite
- Native Gold
- Pyrargyrite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Sphalerite
- Wad
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 (21)
- mapped adit symbols (9)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 43387
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (22)
- underground workings
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