USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Pershing County
Majuba Hill Mine
Source Corroborated Gold Underground 3 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Pershing
- Mining district
- Antelope
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Also known as
- Majuba Hill, Majuba Mine
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former Cu-As-Au-Pb-Mo-Ag-Sn-U mine located in sec. 2, T32N, R31E, MDM, 0.6 km (0.37 mi) S of Majuba Mountain (coordinates of record), about 50 miles (ca. 80 km) NNW of Lovelock, on private land. Operated by the Greenan-Kerr Tin Company, owned by the …
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 3 adit symbols
- Adit : Majuba Mtn. , 1971
- Adit : Majuba Mtn. , 1971
View individual source records (4)
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.
- 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
- Albite
- Anatase
- Arsenolite
- Arsenopyrite
- Arthurite
- Atacamite
- Azurite
View all 40 reported minerals
- Acanthite
- Albite
- Anatase
- Arsenolite
- Arsenopyrite
- Arthurite
- Atacamite
- Azurite
- Bindheimite
- Bornite
- Brochantite
- Brookite
- Calcite
- Cassiterite
- Chalcanthite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcomenite
- Chalcophyllite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chamosite
- Chenevixite
- Chlorargyrite
- Chrysocolla
- Clinoclase
- Clinozoisite
- Conichalcite
- Connellite
- Copper-bearing Melanterite
- Cornetite
- Cornubite
- Cornwallite
- Covellite
- Cubanite
- Cuprite
- Cyanotrichite
- Delafossite
- Digenite
- Enargite
- Epsomite
- Fergusonite-(Y)
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 adit symbols (3)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 3924
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (40)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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