USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Pershing County
56 Copper
Unconfirmed Copper Mixed Underground / Surface 1 mapped shaft 1 mapped adit
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Pershing
- Mining district
- Mill City District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Copper
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A Cu mine located in sec. 27, T33N, R33E, MDM. Structure: Shear Zone Deposit: The deposit is hosted by granodiorite where copper has been deposited mostly As oxides and sulfides in fractures and joints within the granite. The source for the primary …
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features -
Shaft
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 shaft symbol
- 1 adit symbol
- Shaft : Rye Patch Reservoir North , 1971
- Adit : Rye Patch Reservoir North , 1971
View individual source records (4)
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.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Surface-Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Surface-Underground · oper_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Bornite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chrysocolla
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Molybdenum
- Diorite
View all 13 reported minerals
- Bornite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chrysocolla
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Molybdenum
- Diorite
- Limonite
- Malachite
- Molybdenite
- Native Silver
- Pyrite
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 (1)
- mapped adit symbols (1)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 58276
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (13)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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