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Nevada · Mineral County

Foster Prospect

Mindat Confirmed Iron Mixed Underground / Surface 2 mapped shafts 4 mapped adits

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Key facts

State
Nevada
County
Mineral
Development status
Occurrence
Mine type
Mixed underground / surface
Primary commodity
Iron
Verification
Mindat Confirmed

Mine Location

Approximate Area

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Documented underground workings

  • Shaft — documented in 2 source records.
    USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features · Mindat
  • Adit — documented in 1 source record.
    Mindat

Historical mapped workings

USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.

  • 2 shaft symbols
  • 4 adit symbols
  • Shaft : Pilot Cone , 1979
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Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.

  • Adit
    Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: lite Dikes Deposit: An old shaft is reported to have cut iron ore near the bottom. Several shafts, adits and numerous surface scrapin…
  • Shaft
    Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
  • Shaft
    Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: Structure: Dioritic Rock And Limst. Cut By Aplite Dikes Deposit: An old shaft is reported to have cut iron ore near the bottom. Sever…
  • USGS MRDS working type: Surface/Underground
  • MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface/Underground · work_type

Verification

Mindat Confirmed

Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.

Why confirmed?

Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.

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Why it's listed

Source records document both underground and surface mining.

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History & operations

Historical record

  • Development status: Occurrence

Operators / organizations

  • Foster, Steve And Lee · Source-reported owner

Commodities & minerals

Reported minerals

  • Hematite
  • Magnetite
  • commodity:Iron
  • Diorite
  • Hematite
  • Magnetite
  • Marble

Access & recent conditions

Land
unknown

Community reports

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Sources & evidence

USGS Mineral Resources Data System

Type: Historical mine record

Supports:

  • mine identity
  • development status
  • commodities
  • underground eligibility 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.

Dataset information

Mindat

Type: Mineralogical locality database

Record: Mindat Locality: 64131

Supports:

  • locality identity
  • reported minerals (5)

A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.

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