USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Churchill County
Mizpah Mine
Unconfirmed Gold Underground
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Churchill
- Mining district
- Fairview District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Faulting Alteration: Silicification Deposit type: Epithermal vein, Comstock Ore(s): Quartz Vein, Fault
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 5 shaft symbols
- 7 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Underground · oper_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- Echo Bay Mining Co. · Source-reported owner · 1990
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Acanthite
- Adularia
- Calcite
- Chlorargyrite
- K Feldspar
- Kaolinite
- Limonite
- Native Gold
View all 13 reported minerals
- Acanthite
- Adularia
- Calcite
- Chlorargyrite
- K Feldspar
- Kaolinite
- Limonite
- Native Gold
- Native Silver
- Pyrolusite
- Quartz
- Stephanite
- Wad
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 (5)
- mapped adit symbols (7)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 222403
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (13)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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