USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Eureka County
Phillipsburg Mine
Mindat Confirmed Lead Mixed Underground / Surface 8 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Eureka
- Mining district
- Diamond District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Lead
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Also known as
- Phillips Mine, Phillipsburg
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 35 T22N R54E Alteration: Silicification Of Limestone Deposit: 1864 discovery of mr. Phillips; 1866 small production then abandoned (van derbery 1938) development consists of a 300 foot adit and 1,000 feet of drifts, short adits. 1922 eureka silve…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 2 source records,
noting 300 ft, 000 ft.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features · Mindat -
Drift
— documented in 1 source record,
noting 300 ft, 000 ft.
Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 8 adit symbols
- Adit : Rattlesnake Mountain , 1990
View individual source records (5)
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
· length 300 ft
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: hillips; 1866 small production then abandoned (van derbery 1938) development consists of a 300 foot adit and 1,000 feet of drifts, sh… -
Drift
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: duction then abandoned (van derbery 1938) development consists of a 300 foot adit and 1,000 feet of drifts, short adits. 1922 eureka…
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Surface-Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Surface-Underground · oper_type
Verification
Mindat Confirmed
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why confirmed?
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Azurite
- Cerussite
- commodity:Antimony
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Diorite
View all 17 reported minerals
- Azurite
- Cerussite
- commodity:Antimony
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Diorite
- Dolostone
- Galena
- Limestone
- Limonite
- Malachite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Stibnite
- Tetrahedrite Subgroup
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 (8)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 60602
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (17)
- underground workings
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