USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Lander County
Modoc Mine
Mindat Confirmed Copper Underground 3 mapped shafts
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Lander
- Mining district
- Battle Mountain District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Copper
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Se 24 T31N R42E. Copper Gold Silver Structure: N-Trending Faults Deposit: Discovered about 1925 by h. Broyle who worked it for several years. In 1930, w. Hertfelder bought it & then sold it to c. Crawford. Workings consist of a 75-ft. Shaft with 2 dr…
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 4 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features · Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 3 shaft symbols
- Shaft : Antler Peak , 1984
- Shaft : Antler Peak , 1984
- Shaft : Antler Peak , 1984
View individual source records (6)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Shaft
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: years. In 1930, w. Hertfelder bought it & then sold it to c. Crawford. Workings consist of a 75-ft. Shaft with 2 dr... Historical con…
- 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: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- Crawford, C. · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Pyrite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Manganese
- commodity:Molybdenum
- commodity:Silver
- Pyrite
View all 9 reported minerals
- Pyrite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Manganese
- commodity:Molybdenum
- commodity:Silver
- Pyrite
- Quartz-monzonite
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 (3)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 60271
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (8)
- underground workings
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