USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Clark County
Tiffin Mine
Unconfirmed Zinc Underground 6 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Clark
- Mining district
- Goodsprings District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Zinc
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 18 T25S R58E. Zn, Pb, Ag. Structure: Thrust Fault, Normal Faults Beds Are Much Disturbed, Locally Strike NW And Dip 35-50 SE. Deposit: Ore is directly associated with thrust and normal faults. Geology: Anomolous radioactivity associated with lim…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 4 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 6 adit symbols
- Adit : Shenandoah Peak , 1985
- Adit : Shenandoah Peak , 1985
- Adit : Shenandoah Peak , 1956
- Adit : Shenandoah Peak , 1985
View individual source records (6)
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. -
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.
- 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: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- Beck, C. A. · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Galena
- Hydrozincite
- Cerussite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Zinc
- Galena
- Hydrozincite
View all 12 reported minerals
- Galena
- Hydrozincite
- Cerussite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Zinc
- Galena
- Hydrozincite
- Limestone
- Limonite
- Pyromorphite
- Smithsonite
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 (6)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 61604
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (10)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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