USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Nye County
A and B Mine
Unconfirmed Mercury Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Nye
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Mercury
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Lydia
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Hot Creek Range ; Reg.Trends: North Ne Trending Faults Alteration: The Welded Tuff Is Argillized And Partly Silicified. Tectonics: Basin And Range Deposit: Depth to bottom unknown 1943 Deposit type: Hot-spring Hg Development: Bulldozer t…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 2 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- USGS MRDS working type: Surface/Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface/Underground · work_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- M. F. And Lorena Peterson And Others · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Clay
- Calomel
- Cinnabar
- Clay
- commodity:Mercury
- Kaolinite
- Livingstonite
- Metacinnabar
View all 11 reported minerals
- Clay
- Calomel
- Cinnabar
- Clay
- commodity:Mercury
- Kaolinite
- Livingstonite
- Metacinnabar
- Native Mercury
- Rhyolite
- Tuff
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Type: Historical mapped physical features
Dataset: DOI 10.5066/P9TAALR6
Supports:
- mapped adit symbols (2)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 40345
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (10)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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