USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Lincoln County
Virginia Louise Mine
Mindat Confirmed Manganese Underground
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Lincoln
- Mining district
- Pioche District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Manganese
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 33 T1N R67E Structure: Faults Commodity: A large amount of ore remains unmined because it is no longer in demand As a smelter flux. Deposit: Ore shoot was first cut in the shaft at 150 ft dipping 17 se. Above the main bed in the shaft, another b…
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 1 source record,
noting 150 ft.
Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 13 shaft symbols
- 2 adit symbols
View individual source records (3)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Shaft
· depth 150 ft
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: mined because it is no longer in demand As a smelter flux. Deposit: Ore shoot was first cut in the shaft at 150 ft dipping 17 se. Abo…
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
- 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
- Prince Consolidated Mining Co. · Historical operator · 1970
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Braunite
- Calamine
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Manganese
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Galena
View all 17 reported minerals
- Braunite
- Calamine
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Manganese
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Galena
- Goethite
- Hematite
- Limestone
- Limonite
- Plumbojarosite
- Pyrolusite
- Quartzite
- Rhyolite
- Wad
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 (13)
- mapped adit symbols (2)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 57653
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (17)
- underground workings
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