USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Clark County
Key West
Unconfirmed Nickel Mixed Underground / Surface 1 mapped shaft
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Clark
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Nickel
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Copper King District
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A Ni-Cu-Co-Pt-Au deposit/mine located in the northern Virgin Mountains. Ores are associated with hornblenditic intrusions. Structure: Key West Thrust A Fault Lies At A Depth Of 450 Ft At Key West, Numerous Small Faults Alteration: Peridotite Alte…
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 shaft symbol
- Shaft : Virgin Peak , 1958
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: 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
Operators / organizations
- Key West Mining Co. · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Limonite
- Microcline
- Quartz
- Brochantite
- Chalcanthite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chrysocolla
- Cuprite
View all 40 reported minerals
- Limonite
- Microcline
- Quartz
- Brochantite
- Chalcanthite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chrysocolla
- Cuprite
- Erythrite
- Garnierite
- Magnetite
- Malachite
- Millerite
- Pentlandite
- Polydymite
- Pyrite
- Pyrrhotite
- Azurite
- Brochantite
- Chalcanthite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chromite
- Chrysocolla
- commodity:Cobalt
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Nickel
- commodity:Osmium
- commodity:Palladium
- commodity:Platinum
- commodity:Ruthenium
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Cuprite
- Erythrite
- Fayalite-Forsterite Series
- Garnierite
- Glaukosphaerite
- Gneiss
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 (1)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 3916
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (23)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.