USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Pershing County
Octopus Mine
Mindat Confirmed Silver Underground
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Pershing
- Mining district
- Rochester
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Also known as
- Octopus
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 19 T28N R34E Structure: Steep Nw Trending Faults Alteration: Silicification Deposit: Vein averages 3 ft thick and is displaced by faults discovered in 1913. Mine is opened by 2 drift tunnels. Vein ranges in thickness from a few inches to 6 feet,…
Additional documented workings
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Drift
— documented in 1 source record.
Mindat -
Tunnel
— documented in 1 source record.
Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 5 shaft symbols
- 7 adit symbols
View individual source records (4)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Drift
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: eposit: Vein averages 3 ft thick and is displaced by faults discovered in 1913. Mine is opened by 2 drift tunnels. Vein ranges in thi… -
Tunnel
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: : Vein averages 3 ft thick and is displaced by faults discovered in 1913. Mine is opened by 2 drift tunnels. Vein ranges in thickness…
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Underground · oper_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
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Acanthite
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- Galena
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Rhyolite
View all 10 reported minerals
- Acanthite
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- Galena
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Rhyolite
- Sphalerite
- Tourmaline
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)
- mapped adit symbols (7)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 58472
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (10)
- underground workings
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