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Nevada · Clark County

Lakeshore Mine

Source Corroborated Gold Mixed Underground / Surface 2 mapped shafts 5 mapped adits

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Key facts

State
Nevada
County
Clark
Mining district
Gold Butte
Development status
Past Producer
Mine type
Mixed underground / surface
Primary commodity
Gold
Verification
Source Corroborated

Also known as

  • Utah Group

Mine Location

Approximate Area

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Documented underground workings

  • Adit — documented in 5 source records.
    USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
  • Shaft — documented in 2 source records.
    USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features

Historical mapped workings

USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.

  • 2 shaft symbols
  • 5 adit symbols
  • Shaft : Iceberg Canyon , 1953
  • Adit : Jumbo Peak , 1983
  • Adit : Jumbo Peak , 1983
  • Adit : Jumbo Peak , 1983
  • Adit : Jumbo Peak , 1983
  • Shaft : Iceberg Canyon , 1953
  • Adit : Jumbo Peak , 1983
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Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.

  • Adit
    Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
  • Adit
    Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
  • Adit
    Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
  • Adit
    Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
  • Adit
    Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
  • Shaft
    Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
  • 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): Surface-Underground
  • MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Surface-Underground · oper_type

Verification

Source Corroborated

Additional historical source evidence corroborates this record. This is not a member field verification of current conditions.

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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: Past Producer

Operators / organizations

  • Lakeshore Mining Co. · Historical operator · 1940
  • Lakeshore Mining Co., O. W. Yates, A. W. Lawson, and Fred Gibson · Source-reported owner · 1940

Commodities & minerals

Reported minerals

  • Quartz
  • Gold

Access & recent conditions

Land
unknown

Community reports

No community field reports yet.

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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 (5)

Historical mapped features may no longer exist.

Dataset information

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