USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Eureka County
Fad Shaft
Mindat Confirmed Zinc Underground
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Eureka
- Mining district
- Eureka District
- Development status
- Occurrence
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Zinc
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Ruby Hill Thrust Deposit: Shaft was started in 1942 by the eureka corp., no production was ever recorded. The shaft reached 2,465 feet with a number of cateral workings before it was abandoned in 1948. It is located along the northeast port…
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 1 source record,
noting 2465 ft, 465 ft.
Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 24 shaft symbols
- 15 adit symbols
View individual source records (3)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Shaft
· depth 2465 ft
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: Structure: Ruby Hill Thrust Deposit: Shaft was started in 1942 by the eureka corp., no production was ever recorded. The shaft reache…
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type
Verification
Mindat Confirmed
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why confirmed?
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Occurrence
Operators / organizations
- Eureka Corp. (1940'S · Historical operator
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Galena
- Sphalerite
- Arsenopyrite
- Calcite
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Zinc
- Dolomite
- Dolostone
View all 14 reported minerals
- Galena
- Sphalerite
- Arsenopyrite
- Calcite
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Zinc
- Dolomite
- Dolostone
- Galena
- Pyrite
- Pyrrhotite
- Seligmannite
- Sphalerite
- Tennantite Subgroup
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 (24)
- mapped adit symbols (15)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 60693
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (12)
- underground workings
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