USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Mineral County
Lost Steer Mine
Source Corroborated Mercury Mixed Underground / Surface 1 mapped shaft 5 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Mineral
- Mining district
- Pilot Mountains District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Mercury
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Also known as
- Lost Steers Group
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
The Lost Steers Mine is near Mina, Nevada. Historically the site has been part of the Pilot Mountains Mining District. The site was first discovered in 1913 by Thomas Pepper & Charles Keough. The Lost Steers Mine was closed at the time of data entry wi…
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
- 5 adit symbols
- Shaft : Eddyville , 1980
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
Source Corroborated
Additional historical source evidence corroborates this record. This is not a member field verification of current conditions.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- Anderson, A. J. And Spencer, L. B. · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Barite
- Bornite
- Quartz
- Calomel
- Cinnabar
- Stibiconite
- Stibnite
- Andesite
View all 24 reported minerals
- Barite
- Bornite
- Quartz
- Calomel
- Cinnabar
- Stibiconite
- Stibnite
- Andesite
- Baryte
- Bornite
- Calcite
- Calomel
- Cinnabar
- commodity:Antimony
- commodity:Mercury
- Jarosite
- Limestone
- Native Sulphur
- Orpiment
- Quartz
- Rhyolite
- Stibiconite
- Stibnite
- Valentinite
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)
- mapped adit symbols (5)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 39762
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (17)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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