Mine detail: Prairie Flower Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

35.85528, -115.48917

Resource(M)

Primary:	Zinc, Lead
Secondary:	Copper, Silver, Gold
Ore:	Calamine, Descloizite, Galena, Mimetite

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Replacement
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer

Geology

Host rock:	Yellow Pine Limestone
Host type:	Dolomite
Associated type:	Granite
Structure:	Major Faults In District Make A Reticulate Pattern, On The Nw Limb Of The Porphyry Gulch Anticline Broken By Many Faults

References

MRDS	D000029
DEP	10008116
Reference	{Deposit:: HEWETT, 1931 , GEOLOGY & ORE DEPOSITS OF GOODSPRINGS QUAD., USGS PROF. PAPER 162 , P. 127 - 129 .}{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 .}{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}{Production:: LONGWELL, PAMPEYAN, BOWYER, ROBERTS, 1965}
Reporter	Harner, Joy L., Mosier, Dan, Fischer, Richard P.