USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Clark County
Prairie Flower Mine
Unconfirmed Zinc Underground
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Clark
- Mining district
- Goodsprings
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Zinc
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former Zn-Pb-Cu-Ag-Au mine located in sec. 17, T24S, R58E, MDM, 5.6 km (3.5 miles) WNW of Goodsprings and E of Shenandoah Peak, on private land. Discovered and first produced in 1901. Closed in 1952. Owned by the Yellow Pine Mining Co. MRDS database …
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 22 shaft symbols
- 8 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- Yellow Pine Mining Co. · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Calamine
- Descloizite
- Galena
- Mimetite
- Anglesite
- Aragonite
- Beaverite-(Cu)
- Calcite
View all 22 reported minerals
- Calamine
- Descloizite
- Galena
- Mimetite
- Anglesite
- Aragonite
- Beaverite-(Cu)
- Calcite
- Cerussite
- commodity:Zinc
- Descloizite
- Dolomite
- Galena
- Hemimorphite
- Hydrozincite
- Kaolinite
- Limonite
- Mimetite
- Orthoclase
- Plumbojarosite
- Smithsonite
- Vanadinite
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 (22)
- mapped adit symbols (8)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 18968
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (18)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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