USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Churchill County
Antimony King Mine
Unconfirmed Antimony Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Churchill
- Mining district
- Bernice District
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Antimony
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- SolomonkingSolomon, Volks, Blue Bird, Van Reed, Turley, J.P. Williams
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Faults Alteration: Altered Slate; Silicification; Sericitization Of Pike Orsill Deposit: Quartz vein, stibnite occurs As pods, blebs & veinlets in the quartz vein and in the fractured sill. On the lower level, the vein opens up into a 48-i…
Additional documented workings
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Level
— documented in 1 source record.
Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 10 adit symbols
View individual source records (3)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Level
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: tibnite occurs As pods, blebs & veinlets in the quartz vein and in the fractured sill. On the lower level, the vein opens up into a 4…
- 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: Producer
Operators / organizations
- Turley, Howard · Historical operator
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Cervantite
- Gold
- Sphalerite
- Stibnite
- Arsenopyrite
- Cervantite
- Latite
- Limestone
View all 14 reported minerals
- Cervantite
- Gold
- Sphalerite
- Stibnite
- Arsenopyrite
- Cervantite
- Latite
- Limestone
- Native Gold
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Slate
- Sphalerite
- Stibnite
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 (10)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 60920
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (10)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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