USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Clark County
Potosi Mine
Source Corroborated Zinc Underground 3 mapped shafts 3 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Clark
- Mining district
- Goodsprings District
- Development status
- Plant
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Zinc
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Also known as
- Comet, Potesi
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 12 T23S R57E. Zn, Pb, Cu, Au, Ag. Structure: Several Thrust And Normal Faults, Part Of Overturned Syncline Alteration: Limestone Dolomitized Locally Deposit type: Polymetallic replacement Rock formation(s): Yellowpine Limestone Member, Monte Cri…
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 3 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features -
Adit
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 3 shaft symbols
- 3 adit symbols
- Adit : Shenandoah Peak , 1956
- Shaft : Potosi , 1984
- Shaft : Potosi , 1984
- Shaft : Potosi , 1984
View individual source records (6)
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. -
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.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Plant): Underground · oper_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
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Plant
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Anglesite
- Aurichalcite
- Calamine
- Calcite
- Cerussite
- Cuprite
- Galena
- Greenockite
View all 17 reported minerals
- Anglesite
- Aurichalcite
- Calamine
- Calcite
- Cerussite
- Cuprite
- Galena
- Greenockite
- Gypsum
- Hemimorphite
- Hydrozincite
- Limestone
- Limonite
- Malachite
- Native Gold
- Smithsonite
- Sphalerite
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)
- mapped adit symbols (3)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 61587
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (17)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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