USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Clark County
Blue Jay Mine
Source Corroborated Lead Underground 4 mapped shafts 1 mapped adit
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Clark
- Mining district
- Goodsprings
- Development status
- Occurrence
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Lead
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 9 T24S R58E. Pb, Zn, Cu, Ag, Au, Co. Structure: Large Scale Overthrusts Contact Overthrust Lies 200 Ft. Below The Surface. Deposit type: Kipushi Cu-Pb-Zn (BC name is Carbonate-hosted Cu) Geology: Copper and cobalt minerals lay along fractures tr…
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 4 shaft symbols
- 1 adit symbol
- Shaft : Cottonwood Pass , 1989
View individual source records (3)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type
Verification
Source Corroborated
Additional historical source evidence corroborates this record. This is not a member field verification of current conditions.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Occurrence
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Heterogenite
- Malachite
- Allophane
- Chalcocite
- Chrysocolla
- commodity:Cobalt
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
View all 29 reported minerals
- Heterogenite
- Malachite
- Allophane
- Chalcocite
- Chrysocolla
- commodity:Cobalt
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Conichalcite
- Dioptase
- Dolomite
- Dolostone
- Duhamelite
- Fornacite
- Goethite
- Hematite
- Heterogenite
- Ilmenite
- Malachite
- Mottramite
- Namibite
- Quartz
- Rosasite
- Safflorite
- Tangeite
- Vauquelinite
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 (4)
- mapped adit symbols (1)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 61540
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (27)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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