USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Lincoln County
Mountain Lion Mine
Source Corroborated Lead Mixed Underground / Surface 5 mapped shafts
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Lincoln
- Mining district
- Highland District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Lead
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Also known as
- NBMG Sample Site 1446
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 17 T1N R66E Structure: Faults Commodity: No ore minerals given in the literature Deposit: Mineralized quartz and jasper breccia. Highly Fe-stained, brecciated and resilicified quartz vein material on the dump carries oxidized and unoxidized pyri…
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 3 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 5 shaft symbols
- Shaft : Highland Peak , 1953
- Shaft : Highland Peak , 1953
- Shaft : Highland Peak , 1953
View individual source records (5)
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.
- USGS MRDS working type: Surface/Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface/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
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Jasper
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Galena
- commodity:Arsenic
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
View all 14 reported minerals
- Jasper
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Galena
- commodity:Arsenic
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Galena
- Jasper
- Limestone
- Pyrite
- Quartz
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 (5)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 57774
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (10)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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