USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Humboldt County
Prentiss Prospect
Source Corroborated Mercury Mixed Underground / Surface 3 mapped shafts 6 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Humboldt
- Mining district
- Poverty Peak District
- Development status
- Occurrence
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Mercury
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Also known as
- Paradise View, Blue Bucket, Hot Shot
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 9(?) T40N R40E Structure: Thrust Fault Unnamed Ne Normal Fault 1/2 Mi To Nw Alteration: Replacement Of Limestone Deposit: 9 claims discovered in 1940; owned in 1944 by c.r. Prentiss. Property consists of 9 claims developed by several trenches an…
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features -
Adit
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 3 shaft symbols
- 6 adit symbols
- Shaft : Hot Springs Peak , 1988
- Adit : Hot Springs Peak , 1988
- Shaft : Hot Springs Peak , 1988
View individual source records (5)
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. -
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.
- USGS MRDS working type: Surface/Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface/Underground · work_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
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Occurrence
Operators / organizations
- Cr. Prentiss · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Calcite
- Quartz
- Cinnabar
- Calcite
- Cinnabar
- commodity:Mercury
- Limestone
- Quartz
View all 9 reported minerals
- Calcite
- Quartz
- Cinnabar
- Calcite
- Cinnabar
- commodity:Mercury
- Limestone
- Quartz
- Quartzite
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 (3)
- mapped adit symbols (6)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 59625
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (6)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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