USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
California · Inyo County
Unknown
Unconfirmed Iron Underground
Key facts
- State
- California
- County
- Inyo
- Mining district
- Argus
- Development status
- Occurrence
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Iron
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Source classification: Underground operation documented
Specific physical workings are not yet documented in discrete records.
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: Occurrence
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Clay
- Limonite
- Pyrite
- Pyrrhotite
- Quartz
- Bornite
- Chalcopyrite
- Covellite
View all 10 reported minerals
- Clay
- Limonite
- Pyrite
- Pyrrhotite
- Quartz
- Bornite
- Chalcopyrite
- Covellite
- Hematite
- Malachite
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
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