USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Mineral County
Lone Star Group
Unconfirmed Gold Underground
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Mineral
- Mining district
- Bovard - Rand
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Alteration: Highly Altered Andesite-Kaolinized Commodity: ASSAY AVE. $3 TO $12 PER TON AU; $7 TO $20 PER TON SILVER IN 1937 . ORE AVE. 3 FT OF $16.37/TON. Deposit: Geology is similar to that of nev. Rand except that andesite breccia and rhyolite were…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 9 shaft symbols
- 8 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
Operators / organizations
- E. H. Mims · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Jarosite
- Acanthite
- Andesite
- Breccia
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Iron
- commodity:Lead
View all 14 reported minerals
- Jarosite
- Acanthite
- Andesite
- Breccia
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Iron
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- Granodiorite
- Gypsum
- Jarosite
- Limonite
- Rhyolite
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 (9)
- mapped adit symbols (8)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 39381
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (13)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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