USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Pershing County
Pacific Matchless
Source Corroborated Lead Underground 2 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Pershing
- Mining district
- Spring Valley
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Lead
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 14 T28N R34E Structure: Shear Zone (North Trending) Alteration: Wallrock Is Pyritized And Sericitized Deposit: Large cubes of pyrite occur in both quartz-tourmaline veins and wall rocks. Basalt feeder dikes, younger than the mineralization, were…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 2 adit symbols
- Adit : Fitting , 1987
- Adit : Unionville , 1954
View individual source records (4)
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.
- 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
- Basalt
- Calcite
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- Galena
- Granite
View all 12 reported minerals
- Baryte
- Basalt
- Calcite
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- Galena
- Granite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Sphalerite
- Tourmaline
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 adit symbols (2)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 58731
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (12)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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