Prairie Flower Mine

Past Producer in Clark county in Nevada, United States with commodities Zinc, Lead, Copper, Silver, Gold
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10008116
MRDS ID D000029
Record type Site
Current site name Prairie Flower Mine
Related records 10246239

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.48917, 35.85528 (WGS84)
Elevation 1366
Relative position 4 MILES NW OF GOODSPRINGS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Clark(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Goodsprings(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mesquite Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Kingman(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Ivanpah-Pahrump Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Clark

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
024S 058E 17 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Primary
Lead Primary
Copper Secondary
Silver Secondary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Calamine Ore
Descloizite Ore
Galena Ore
Mimetite Ore

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 72
USGS model code 19a
Deposit model name Polymetallic replacement
Mark3 model number 47

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Yellow Pine Limestone
    Rock description Yellow Pine Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) Felsic phaneritic intrusive rocks

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Major Faults In District Make A Reticulate Pattern
Type of structure Local
Structure description On The Nw Limb Of The Porphyry Gulch Anticline Broken By Many Faults

Ore body information

  • Strike N 30 E
    Dip 45 NW

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Permeability Of Limestone

Comments on the geologic information

  • GALENA WAS PROBABLY MOST ABUNDANT BUT NOW MINETITE IS MUCH MORE COMMON.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Goodsprings

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Yellow Pine Mining Co.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 426.72M
    Overall depth 121.92M

Comments on the workings information

  • UNDERGROUND WORKINGS NOW CONNECTED TO THE YELLOW PINE MINE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LATEST PRODUCTION 1952 ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1973 Fischer, Richard P. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1979 Harner, Joy L. U.S. Geological Survey PARSED HOST ROCK AND ASSOCIATED ROCK INFORMATION FROM OLD SINGLE VALUED FIELD TO NEW MULTIVALUED FIELD
Editor 27-APR-1995 Mosier, Dan U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

External references

Authoritative Nevada resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.