USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Mineral County
Eastside
Unconfirmed Copper Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Mineral
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Copper
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Copper King
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Deposit: Veins & breccia layers parallel with bedding Geology: Geol.desc: copper stained qtz. Veins and breccia layers over a 100 ft. Width ; silicified and locally bleached and argillized country rock. Quartz porphyry dike trending NE is altered and …
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 4 shaft symbols
- 6 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- 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
- Chert
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Iron
- commodity:Mercury
- commodity:Molybdenum
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Tin
- commodity:Zinc
View all 11 reported minerals
- Chert
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Iron
- commodity:Mercury
- commodity:Molybdenum
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Tin
- commodity:Zinc
- Copper Stain
- Limestone
- Quartz
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 (6)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 39864
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (11)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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