USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Mineral County
Calavada Mine
Unconfirmed Copper Mixed Underground / Surface 2 mapped shafts 4 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Mineral
- Mining district
- Santa Fe
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Copper
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Deposit: Mining ceased late 93. Heap leach still operational in 1995. Reclamation estimated to be completed in 1996. General location: about 42 km E of hawthorne the present access road is adequate. Water and power are available at the site. The workin…
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features -
Adit
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 2 shaft symbols
- 4 adit symbols
- Shaft : Sunrise Flat , 1979
- Adit : Sunrise Flat , 1979
- Shaft : Sunrise Flat , 1979
View individual source records (5)
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. -
Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- USGS MRDS working type: Surface/Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface/Underground · work_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
- Calcite
- Sericite
- Acanthite
- Baryte
- Calcite
- Chalcedony
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
View all 26 reported minerals
- Calcite
- Sericite
- Acanthite
- Baryte
- Calcite
- Chalcedony
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- Epidote
- Galena
- Garnet Group
- Hematite
- Hornblendite
- Jasper
- Kaolinite
- Limestone
- Limonite
- Monzonite
- Muscovite
- Native Gold
- Native Silver
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Sericite
- Stibnite
- Tourmaline
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 (4)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 431608
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (24)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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