Columbia Mine

Past Producer in Clark county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Zinc, 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037212
MRDS ID M031100
Record type Site
Current site name Columbia Mine
Alternate or previous names Josephine Claim
Related records 10197407

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.47612, 35.82028 (WGS84)
Elevation 1402
Relative position 2 MILES S WEST 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 33 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Secondary
Zinc Critical Secondary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Chrysocolla Ore
Heterogenite Ore
Malachite Ore
Dioptase Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.47612, 35.82028

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Large Scale Overthrusts.
Type of structure Local
Structure description Fault West Of The Shaft

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Breccia Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • COBALT OXIDE REPLACING DOLOMITE COUNTRY ROCK ALONG LOCAL FAULT, FORMING DENDRITES.

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 Joseph Dederich
    First year 1922

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 152.4M
    Overall depth 33.53M

Comments on the workings information

  • MAIN WORKINGS ARE 2 SHAFTS 800 FEET APART.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HEWETT, 1931 , GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF GOODSPRINGS QUAD. USGS PROF. PAPER 162 P. 121 - 122 .

  • Deposit

    LONGWELL, C. R., PAMPEYAN, E. H., BOWYER, B., ROBERTS, R. J., 1965 , GEOLOGY & MINERAL DEPOSITS OF CLARK CO. NEV. BUREAU OF MINES BULL. 62 .

  • Deposit

    HEWETT, 1956 , GEOLOGY MINERAL RESOURCES OF IVANPAH QUAD. USGS PROF. PAP. 275 , P. 133 - 134 .

  • Production

    LONGWELL ETAL, 1965

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1979 Harner, Joy L. (Roberts, Ralph J.) 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.