USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Lincoln County
King Midas ?
Unconfirmed Silver Underground 1 mapped shaft
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Lincoln
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- NBMG Sample Sites 1568 and 1714
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Steeply Dipping, N Striking, Normal Faults Faults, Fractures Alteration: Silicification Commodity: Ore minerals not given in the literature Deposit: District unorganized ; info.src : 1 pub lit mine is on the hanging wall of a fault. Ore o…
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 : Ely Springs , 1970
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.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Underground · oper_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Anglesite
- Calcite
- Cerussite
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Manganese
- commodity:Silver
- Dolostone
- Galena
View all 12 reported minerals
- Anglesite
- Calcite
- Cerussite
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Manganese
- commodity:Silver
- Dolostone
- Galena
- Limestone
- Quartz
- Shale
- Wad
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: 430914
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (12)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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