USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Pershing County
Piedmont Mine
Mindat Confirmed Fluorine-Fluorite Underground
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Pershing
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Fluorine-Fluorite
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 12 T31N R33E Deposit: Vein is 1/2 to 3 ft wide. Fluorite occurs in small crystals and thin veinlets.. Vein occurs near contact with prida fm. Diabase dike in northernmost adit. Vein is well-banded, vuggy, coarsely crystalline quartz with green flu…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 1 source record.
Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 2 shaft symbols
- 8 adit symbols
View individual source records (4)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Adit
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: l crystals and thin veinlets.. Vein occurs near contact with prida fm. Diabase dike in northernmost adit. Vein is well-banded, vuggy,…
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type
- 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
Operators / organizations
- Verner C Biggs And Grace Lamb · Source-reported owner · 1974
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Dolerite
- Fluorite
- Limestone
- Quartz
- Rhyolite
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 (2)
- mapped adit symbols (8)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 58241
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (5)
- underground workings
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Documented adit evidence