USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Mineral County
Mabel Mine
Source Corroborated Silver Underground 2 mapped shafts 5 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Mineral
- Mining district
- Garfield District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Deposit: The veins were described as being oxidized to cavernous quartz with limonite and cerargyrite, native silver, jarosite, anglesite, chrysocolla and malachite. The host rocks consist of chert, quartzite and limestone of the Triassic age. Develop…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 3 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 : Mable Mountain , 1967
- Adit : Mable Mountain , 1967
- Shaft : Mable Mountain , 1967
- Adit : Mable Mountain , 1967
- Adit : Mable Mountain , 1967
View individual source records (7)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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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): Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Underground · oper_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
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Acanthite
- Anglesite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chert
- Chlorargyrite
- Chrysocolla
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
View all 22 reported minerals
- Acanthite
- Anglesite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chert
- Chlorargyrite
- Chrysocolla
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Galena
- Jarosite
- Limestone
- Limonite
- Malachite
- Muscovite
- Native Silver
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Quartzite
- Sphalerite
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 (2)
- mapped adit symbols (5)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 39622
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (22)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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