USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Lincoln County
Andies Mine
Unconfirmed Mercury Mixed Underground / Surface 1 mapped shaft
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Lincoln
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Mercury
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 4 T5S R56E Alteration: Kaolinization Commodity: Grade of mercury is directly proportional to intensity of fracturing and alteration. Deposit: Averages 15 ft thick; up to 40 ft of overburden . Cinnabar occurs As scattered crystals, thin veincet…
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 shaft symbol
- Shaft : Tempiute Mtn. , 1964
View individual source records (3)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Surface-Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Surface-Underground · oper_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
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Calcite
- Cinnabar
- commodity:Mercury
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zirconium
- Gypsum
- Jarosite
- Limonite
View all 12 reported minerals
- Calcite
- Cinnabar
- commodity:Mercury
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zirconium
- Gypsum
- Jarosite
- Limonite
- Metacinnabar
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Rhyolite
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 shaft symbols (1)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 57942
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (12)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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