USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Humboldt County
Moonlight Mine
Unconfirmed Uranium Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Humboldt
- Mining district
- Disaster District; Disaster Peak District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Uranium
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- King's River Area, Platora Mine, Moonlight and Forget-Me-Not Claims, NBMG Sample Site 2414.
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 shaft symbol
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): Surface-Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Surface-Underground · oper_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
- Anaconda Exploration (Had A Lease On The Property 2-3 Years Ago.) · Historical operator
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Fluorite
- Galena
- Carnotite
- Torbernite
- Uraninite
- Acanthite
- Adularia
- Arsenopyrite
View all 35 reported minerals
- Fluorite
- Galena
- Carnotite
- Torbernite
- Uraninite
- Acanthite
- Adularia
- Arsenopyrite
- Autunite
- Baryte
- Calcite
- Cinnabar
- Coffinite
- Electrum
- Fluorapatite
- Fluorite
- Galena
- Goethite
- Gummite
- Jarosite
- K Feldspar
- Marcasite
- Meta-autunite
- Metazeunerite
- Native Gold
- Pharmacosiderite
- Powellite
- Pyrite
- Pyrrhotite
- Quartz
- Rutile
- Sphalerite
- Torbernite
- Uraninite
- Zircon
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)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 59722
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (30)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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