USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Elko County
Banner Hill Group
Unconfirmed Copper Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Elko
- Mining district
- Spruce Mountain
- Development status
- Occurrence
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Copper
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Alteration: Some Silication Deposit: The banner hill group of 23 claims lie on the western slope of banner hill, north of the never sweat property and is developed by shallow surface workings on the north and west slope of the hill. There is a crosscu…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 2 shaft symbols
- 9 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: Occurrence
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Diopside
- Garnet
- Bornite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Copper
- Bornite
- Chalcocite
View all 16 reported minerals
- Diopside
- Garnet
- Bornite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Copper
- Bornite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Copper
- Diopside
- Garnet Group
- Granite
- Native Copper
- Quartzite
- Wulfenite
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 (2)
- mapped adit symbols (9)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 41619
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (10)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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