USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Mineral County
Moho Mine
Source Corroborated Gold Underground 3 mapped shafts 6 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Mineral
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Alteration: Ore Is Bleached, Brecciated, Silicified Andesitic Tuff Deposit: Series of veins, average 4 ft. Wide: main or moho vein is 1,500 m (4,900 ft.) and slightly over 1 m wide ; the shoemaker vein, to the west, is 700m (2,300 ft.) long and Devel…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features -
Shaft
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 3 shaft symbols
- 6 adit symbols
- Adit : Moho Mountain , 1967
- Adit : Moho Mountain , 1967
- Shaft : Moho Mountain , 1967
View individual source records (5)
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. -
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
- Cerussite
- Chalcedony
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- Greywacke
- Jarosite
View all 14 reported minerals
- Cerussite
- Chalcedony
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- Greywacke
- Jarosite
- Muscovite
- Native Gold
- Native Silver
- Quartz
- Sericite
- Siltstone
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 (3)
- mapped adit symbols (6)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 39870
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (14)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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