USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Lincoln County
Comet Mine
Source Corroborated Lead Underground 3 mapped shafts
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Lincoln
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Lead
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Also known as
- Part of Comet Coalition Mines, Probably Includes the Tungsten Comet and Silver Comet Mines
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 5,6 T1S R66E Structure: Highland Thrust Plate, Homoclinal Series, N Strike, E Dip Commodity: Wolframite occurs in places As heavy aggreggates of coarse tabular crystals. Deposit type: Polymetallic veins Development: No activity at time of examin…
Additional documented workings
-
Shaft
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 3 shaft symbols
- Shaft : Highland Peak , 1953
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: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- Comet Mines Co. · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Limonite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Specularite
- Argentite
- Bornite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
View all 40 reported minerals
- Limonite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Specularite
- Argentite
- Bornite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chrysocolla
- Galena
- Malachite
- Plumbojarosite
- Pyrolusite
- Scheelite
- Sphalerite
- Tetrahedrite
- Wolframite
- Acanthite
- Bornite
- Cerussite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chrysocolla
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Manganese
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Tungsten
- commodity:Zinc
- Ferberite
- Galena
- Hematite
- Hübnerite
- Limonite
- Malachite
- Native Gold
- Plumbojarosite
- Pyrite
- Pyrolusite
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 (3)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 57795
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (23)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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