Columbia Mine

Past Producer in Clark county in Nevada, United States with commodities Cobalt, Copper, Gold, Silver, Zinc
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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Mineral rights holdings
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10197407
MRDS ID M031100
MAS/MILS ID 0320030022
Record type Site
Current site name Columbia Mine
Related records 10037212

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -115.47584, 35.8206 (WGS84)
Elevation 1460
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

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
Mount Diablo 024 S 058 E 33 SWNWNE Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Cobalt Critical Tertiary
Copper Tertiary
Gold Tertiary
Silver Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Unknown
Chalcopyrite Unknown
Chrysocolla Unknown
Diopside Unknown
Iron Unknown
Malachite Unknown
Smaltite Unknown
Tenorite Unknown

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -115.47584, 35.8206

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Area 5HA
    Field Value
    Total Surface Area (HA) 5
    Date of Last Modification 910418

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1880
Year of first production 1906

Mining district

District name Goodsprings District

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Unknown

Land status

Ownership category Unknown

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner St. Antony Mining Co..
    Interest 100
    Home office Nevada
    Year 1975
  • Type Operator
    Owner Leonard R. Fayle ,Las Vegas Nev.
    Home office Nevada
    Year 1975

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NO SMALTITE LISTCO ,CO MINERAL IS HETEROGEN HETEROGENITE IS AN ALTERATION PRODUCT OF SMALTITE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 16-FEB-1993 Pierce, Paul A. U.S. Bureau of Mines

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.