USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Clark County
Sampson Claims
Unconfirmed Zinc Underground 2 mapped shafts 2 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Clark
- Development status
- Occurrence
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Zinc
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 2 shaft symbols
- 2 adit symbols
- Shaft : Gass Peak , 1952
- Shaft : Valley , 1974
View individual source records (4)
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.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Occurrence
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Calamine
- Chrysocolla
- Gold
- Hydrozincite
- Malachite
- Silver
- Calamine
- Chrysocolla
View all 16 reported minerals
- Calamine
- Chrysocolla
- Gold
- Hydrozincite
- Malachite
- Silver
- Calamine
- Chrysocolla
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Hemimorphite
- Hydrozincite
- Malachite
- Native Gold
- Native Silver
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)
- mapped adit symbols (2)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 61429
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (10)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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