USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Pershing County
Moonlight
Source Corroborated Silver Underground 2 mapped shafts
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Pershing
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 15 T29N R34E Alteration: Sericitization Deposit: Shear zone in schistose rhyolite, with oxide copper minerals, and quartz stringers the moonlight silver mine was worked until about 1871. It is developed by several short adits, pits, and four shal…
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 3 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features · Mindat -
Adit
— documented in 2 source records.
Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 2 shaft symbols
- Shaft : Unionville , 1954
- Shaft : Congress Canyon , 1987
View individual source records (7)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Adit
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: z stringers the moonlight silver mine was worked until about 1871. It is developed by several short adits, pits, and four shallow sha… -
Adit
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: z stringers the moonlight silver mine was worked until about 1871. It is developed by several short adits, pits, and four shal... His… -
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. -
Shaft
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: er mine was worked until about 1871. It is developed by several short adits, pits, and four shallow shafts. ; info... Historical cont…
- 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
- Baryte
- Chalcopyrite
- Chrysocolla
- commodity:Antimony
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
View all 14 reported minerals
- Baryte
- Chalcopyrite
- Chrysocolla
- commodity:Antimony
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Limonite
- Malachite
- Quartz
- Rhyolite
- Tenorite
- 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 (2)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 58252
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (14)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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