USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Lander County
Violet Claim
Mindat Confirmed Molybdenum Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Lander
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Molybdenum
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Also known as
- Tenabo, Turquoise 50
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Deposit In Upper Plate Of Roberts Mtn Thrust Alteration: Country Rocks Pyrometa Somatized To Horntels And Calc-Silicate Skarn, Adjacent To Tenabo Stock. Deposit: Seams of molybdenite along joint planes the original workings completed in th…
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 1 source record.
Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 24 shaft symbols
- 21 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: Deposit In Upper Plate Of Roberts Mtn Thrust Alteration: Country Rocks Pyrometa Somatized To Horntels And Calc-Silicate Sk…
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Surface-Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Producer): Surface-Underground · oper_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: Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Chert
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Molybdenum
- commodity:Silver
- Diorite
- Molybdenite
- Quartzite
- Shale
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 (24)
- mapped adit symbols (21)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 64490
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (8)
- underground workings
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