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Pompeii Mine

Past Producer in Clark county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Zinc
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10149807
MRDS ID M031009
MAS/MILS ID 0320030201
Record type Site
Current site name Pompeii Mine
Related records 10103555

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -114.92412, 35.49671 (WGS84)
Elevation 1122
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Clark(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Searchlight(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Davis Dam(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Kingman(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Piute Wash(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Clark

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 028 S 063 E 22 NESWNE Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) Younger andesite and intermediate flows and breccias
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1909

Mining district

District name Searchlight

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NEV BUR MINE BULL 62 1965 P.201

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL 906-D 1938 P.179-180.

  • Deposit

    USBM INFORM CIRC 6964 1937 P.75

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 18-FEB-93 Ridenour, James U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

External references

Maps centered on this site

Authoritative Nevada resources

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