USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Churchill County
Bell Mountain Mine
Source Corroborated Silver Mixed Underground / Surface 2 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Churchill
- Mining district
- Fairview District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Also known as
- Bell Mountain Homestake, Stockton Mine
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Ne-striking faults, dipping south. Alteration: Wallrock alteration consists of silicification, chloritization, and sericitization adjacent to veins. Commodity: Ore Materials: electrum, Argentite, native silver, cerargyrite, acanthite, copp…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 2 adit symbols
- Adit : Bell Canyon , 1972
- Adit : Bell Canyon , 1972
View individual source records (4)
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.
- 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
Source Corroborated
Additional historical source evidence corroborates this record. This is not a member field verification of current conditions.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- Ecu Gold Mining Company Inc. · Historical operator · 1998
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Adularia
- Acanthite
- Argentite
- Barite
- Cerargyrite
- Electrum
- Fluorite
- Montmorillonite
View all 30 reported minerals
- Adularia
- Acanthite
- Argentite
- Barite
- Cerargyrite
- Electrum
- Fluorite
- Montmorillonite
- Rhodochrosite
- Silver
- Acanthite
- Adularia
- Andesite
- Baryte
- Calcite
- Chlorargyrite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Manganese
- commodity:Silver
- Electrum
- Fluorite
- K Feldspar
- Montmorillonite
- Native Silver
- Quartz
- Rhodochrosite
- 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: 63280
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (20)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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