USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Lander County
Lucky Strike Mine
Source Corroborated Lead Underground 2 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Lander
- Mining district
- Battle Mountain District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Lead
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 27 T32N R43E Structure: Thrust Faults Nw-Trending Faults; Some Post-Ore Shearing Deposit: 4 ore shoots along lucky strike fault. The vein is within a north-trending fault zone on the fringe of a copper-gold zone. The vein has been traced for thou…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 2 adit symbols
- Adit : Galena Canyon , 1984
- Adit : Galena Canyon , 1984
View individual source records (4)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type
Verification
Source Corroborated
Additional historical source evidence corroborates this record. This is not a member field verification of current conditions.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- United Minerals Co, · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Calcite
- Quartz
- Anglesite
- Gold
- Smithsonite
- Sphalerite
- Anglesite
- Calcite
View all 28 reported minerals
- Calcite
- Quartz
- Anglesite
- Gold
- Smithsonite
- Sphalerite
- Anglesite
- Calcite
- commodity:Cadmium
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Galena
- Greenockite
- Mimetite
- Native Gold
- Plumbojarosite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Quartz-monzonite
- Quartzite
- Sandstone
- Shale
- Silver-bearing Galena
- Smithsonite
- Sphalerite
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 adit symbols (2)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 60109
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (22)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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