USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Pershing County
Keough Prospect
Mindat Confirmed Gold Underground
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Pershing
- Mining district
- Scossa District
- Development status
- Occurrence
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Ne-Sw Fracture Zones Deposit: In the keough block a 12-ft. Shaft shows a vein 2 feet wide cutting down vertically through slates inclined at an angle of 74 degrees. It is located on the southward extension of the same vein on which the gaye…
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 1 source record,
noting 2 ft.
Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 18 shaft symbols
- 1 adit symbol
View individual source records (3)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Shaft
· depth 2 ft
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: Structure: Ne-Sw Fracture Zones Deposit: In the keough block a 12-ft. Shaft shows a vein 2 feet wide cutting down vertically through…
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_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: Occurrence
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Quartz
- Electrum
- Gold
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- Diorite
- Electrum
- Limestone
View all 13 reported minerals
- Quartz
- Electrum
- Gold
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- Diorite
- Electrum
- Limestone
- Native Gold
- Quartz
- Quartzite
- Schist
- Slate
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 (18)
- mapped adit symbols (1)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 437967
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (10)
- underground workings
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