USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Esmeralda County
Mickspot Mine
Unconfirmed Antimony Mixed Underground / Surface 2 mapped shafts
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Esmeralda
- Mining district
- Crow Springs District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Antimony
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Nora Francis, New Dream.
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Oxidized antimony minerals Structure: The Host Rock Strikes N30W, Dip 55SW. Commodity: The stibnite is oxidized. Rock formation(s): Excelsior Formation Structure: Faults Deposit: Vein 6-14 inches wide consists of brecciated chert recemented by …
Additional documented workings
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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
- Shaft : Cole Spring , 1980
- Shaft : Cole Spring , 1980
View individual source records (4)
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. -
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
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- Lee Hand And Neil Doherty, · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Quartz
- Copper
- Stibnite
- Arsenolite
- Arsenopyrite
- Azurite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chert
View all 22 reported minerals
- Quartz
- Copper
- Stibnite
- Arsenolite
- Arsenopyrite
- Azurite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chert
- commodity:Antimony
- commodity:Arsenic
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Iron
- commodity:Selenium
- commodity:Silver
- Malachite
- Native Copper
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Quartzite
- Scorodite
- Stibnite
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)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 60790
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (19)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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Mickspot Mine
Nevada · Esmeralda County
Unconfirmed Antimony Past Producer
Documented shaft evidence