USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Eureka County
Locan Shaft
Mindat Confirmed Gold Underground
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Eureka
- Mining district
- Eureka District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Also known as
- Eureka Consolidated Property
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Ruby Hill Normal Fault Cuts And Downdrops The Orebody Deposit: Ore zones controlled by fault zones, intrusive contact the property is located within the ruby hill area, the richest of the five mineralized blocks in the district. Exploratory…
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 1 source record.
Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 43 shaft symbols
- 26 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
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: Structure: Ruby Hill Normal Fault Cuts And Downdrops The Orebody Deposit: Ore zones controlled by fault zones, intrusive contact the…
- 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: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- Eureka Consolidated Mines · Historical operator
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Molybdenite
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Molybdenum
- commodity:Silver
- Diorite
- Dolostone
- Molybdenite
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 (43)
- mapped adit symbols (26)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 60751
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (7)
- underground workings
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