USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Lander County
Plymouth Mine
Mindat Confirmed Silver Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Lander
- Mining district
- Reese River District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Fractures, Postmineral Joints Alteration: Oxidation Deposit: Reticulate vein pattern with irregular ore shoots less than 100 ft long most of the activity of the district was at the plymouth are union mines during the period 1888-1889. In 1…
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 1 source record,
noting 100 ft long.
Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 25 shaft symbols
- 10 adit symbols
View individual source records (3)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Shaft
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: Structure: Fractures, Postmineral Joints Alteration: Oxidation Deposit: Reticulate vein pattern with irregular ore shoots less than 1…
- USGS MRDS working type: Surface/Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface/Underground · work_type
Verification
Mindat Confirmed
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why confirmed?
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Ankerite
- Calcite
- Graphite
- Pyrite
- Pyrolusite
- Quartz
- Argentite
- Cerargyrite
View all 30 reported minerals
- Ankerite
- Calcite
- Graphite
- Pyrite
- Pyrolusite
- Quartz
- Argentite
- Cerargyrite
- Galena
- Polybasite
- Proustite
- Pyrargyrite
- Sphalerite
- Acanthite
- Ankerite
- Calcite
- Chlorargyrite
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- Galena
- Graphite
- Polybasite
- Proustite
- Pyrargyrite
- Pyrite
- Pyrolusite
- Quartz
- Quartz-monzonite
- Sphalerite
- Tetrahedrite Subgroup
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 (25)
- mapped adit symbols (10)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 59784
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (17)
- underground workings
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