Prairie Flower Mine

The Prairie Flower Mine is a zinc and lead mine located in Clark county, Nevada at an elevation of 4,482 feet.

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All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.

Mine Info

Name: Prairie Flower Mine  

State:  Nevada

County:  Clark

Elevation: 4,482 Feet (1,366 Meters)

Commodity: Zinc, Lead

Lat, Long: 35.85528, -115.48833

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Prairie Flower Mine MRDS details

Site Name

Primary: Prairie Flower Mine


Commodity

Primary: Zinc
Primary: Lead
Secondary: Copper
Secondary: Silver
Secondary: Gold


Location

State: Nevada
County: Clark
District: Goodsprings


Land Status

Land ownership: Private
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.


Holdings

Not available


Workings

Type: Underground


Ownership

Owner Name: Yellow Pine Mining Co.


Production

Not available


Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Replacement
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S


Physiography

General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Sonoran Desert


Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Polymetallic replacement


Orebody

Not available


Structure

Type: R
Description: Major Faults In District Make A Reticulate Pattern

Type: L
Description: On The Nw Limb Of The Porphyry Gulch Anticline Broken By Many Faults


Alterations

Not available


Rocks

Name: Granite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Mississippian

Name: Granite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Paleocene

Name: Granite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Mississippian


Analytical Data

Not available


Materials

Ore: Galena
Ore: Descloizite
Ore: Mimetite
Ore: Calamine


Comments

Comment (Workings): UNDERGROUND WORKINGS NOW CONNECTED TO THE YELLOW PINE MINE.

Comment (Geology): GALENA WAS PROBABLY MOST ABUNDANT BUT NOW MINETITE IS MUCH MORE COMMON.

Comment (Deposit): LATEST PRODUCTION 1952 ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT


References

Reference (Deposit): HEWETT, 1931 , GEOLOGY & ORE DEPOSITS OF GOODSPRINGS QUAD., USGS PROF. PAPER 162 , P. 127 - 129 .

Reference (Deposit): LONGWELL, C. R., PAMPEYAN, E. H., BOWYER, B., ROBERTS, R. J., 1965 , GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF CLARK CO. NEV. BUR. OF MINES, BULL. 62 , P. 186 .

Reference (Deposit): ALBRITTON, C. C., JR., RICHARDS, A., BROKAW, A. L., REINEMUND, J. A., 1954 , GEOLOGIC CONTROLS OF PB & ZN DEPOSITS IN GOODSPRINGS DISTRICT GEOL. SURV. BULL. 1010

Reference (Production): LONGWELL, PAMPEYAN, BOWYER, ROBERTS, 1965


Nevada Gold

Gold Districts of Nevada

Nevada has a total of 368 distinct gold districts. Of the of those, just 36 are major producers with production and/or reserves of over 1,000,000 ounces, 49 have production and/or reserves of over 100,000 ounces, with the rest having less than 100,000 ounces. Read more: Gold Districts of Nevada.