USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Pershing County
NBMG Sample Site 2360
Mindat Confirmed Copper Underground 4 mapped shafts
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Pershing
- Mining district
- Goldbanks District
- Development status
- Occurrence
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Copper
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Deposit: A shallo W shaft explores a N 55 w, 70 s W quartz vein in pink-orthoclase granite. The vein contains moderately heavy iron oxide gossan and spotty green oxide-copper minerals. The vein quartz is milky and mixed with gossan. No primary sulfide …
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 3 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features · Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 4 shaft symbols
- Shaft : Leach Hot Springs , 1990
- Shaft : Leach Hot Springs , 1961
View individual source records (5)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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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: Deposit: A shallo W shaft explores a N 55 w, 70 s W quartz vein in pink-orthoclase granite. The vein contains moderately heavy iron o…
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type
Verification
Mindat Confirmed
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why confirmed?
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Occurrence
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Quartz
- commodity:Antimony
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- Granite
- Quartz
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 (4)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 438061
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (6)
- underground workings
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