USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Clark County
Root Mine
Unconfirmed Zinc Underground
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Clark
- Mining district
- Goodsprings District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Zinc
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Root Camp, Root Zinc Mine, Bonanza Hill Mine, Root Hill
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 13 T25S R57E. Pb, Zn, Ag, Cu, Au. Structure: SE limb of anticline trending NE; numerous joints and shear zones, fault with 100 - 200 ft (ca. 61 m) of displacement. Deposit type: Polymetallic replacement.
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 2 shaft symbols
- 11 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Underground · oper_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
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Anglesite
- Beaverite-(Cu)
- Caledonite
- Cerussite
- Chrysocolla
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
View all 25 reported minerals
- Anglesite
- Beaverite-(Cu)
- Caledonite
- Cerussite
- Chrysocolla
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Descloizite
- Dolostone
- Fornacite
- Galena
- Hemihedrite
- Hemimorphite
- Hydrozincite
- Linarite
- Perroudite
- Phosphohedyphane
- Pyromorphite
- Smithsonite
- Sphalerite
- Vanadinite
- Wulfenite
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 (11)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 61590
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (25)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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