USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Clark County
Mobile Mine
Unconfirmed Zinc Underground
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Clark
- Mining district
- Goodsprings District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Zinc
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 36 T24S R57E. Copper. Structure: Large Scale Overthrusting Mine Is On North Limb Of Syncline Deposit type: Polymetallic replacement Geology: Oxidized mineral shoot coincides closely with sphalerite deposit Ore(s): Sphalerite Deposit
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 shaft symbol
- 19 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
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Adamite
- Aragonite
- Calamine
- Calcite
- Cerussite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
View all 23 reported minerals
- Adamite
- Aragonite
- Calamine
- Calcite
- Cerussite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Molybdenum
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Vanadium
- commodity:Zinc
- Copper-bearing Descloizite
- Cuprodescloizite
- Descloizite
- Dolostone
- Galena
- Hemimorphite
- Hydrozincite
- Phosphohedyphane
- Plattnerite
- Sphalerite
- Wulfenite
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 (19)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 61575
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (23)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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