USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Mineral County
Beach Mine
Unconfirmed Copper Underground 3 mapped shafts 6 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Mineral
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Copper
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Yerington Copper
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Alteration: Sericitized Granodiorite Deposit: Valuable content of deposit mostly secondary. Primary ore mostly noncupriferous or only slightly cupriferous pyrite, so that the source of the copper is not thoroughly clear. Geology: Geol.desc: crushed g…
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 3 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features -
Adit
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 3 shaft symbols
- 6 adit symbols
- Adit : Schurz , 1964
- Shaft : Hussman Spring , 1988
- Shaft : Hussman Spring , 1988
- Shaft : Schurz , 1964
- Adit : Hussman Spring , 1988
View individual source records (7)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Chalcocite
- Copper
- Pyrite
- Chalcocite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- Diorite
View all 10 reported minerals
- Chalcocite
- Copper
- Pyrite
- Chalcocite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- Diorite
- Granite
- Pyrite
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 (3)
- mapped adit symbols (6)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 431537
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (7)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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