USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Churchill County
Bernice Mine
Unconfirmed Antimony Underground 1 mapped shaft 6 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Churchill
- Mining district
- Bernice District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Antimony
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Old Williams Mine
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Alteration: Silicification Deposit: Vein consists of quartz and crushed, altered, mineralized fault breccia, in part banded and in part drusy. The tailings pile below the old millsite containing about 6000 tons was owned by c.m. Beeghly and l.t. Ellis…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 3 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 shaft symbol
- 6 adit symbols
- Adit : Humboldt Salt Marsh , 1966
- Adit : Humboldt Salt Marsh , 1966
- Adit : Bernice Canyon , 1990
View individual source records (5)
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. -
Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). 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
Operators / organizations
- Williams, J. B. · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Feldspar
- Quartz
- Arsenopyrite
- Gold
- Jamesonite
- Pyrite
- Stibnite
- Arsenopyrite
View all 16 reported minerals
- Feldspar
- Quartz
- Arsenopyrite
- Gold
- Jamesonite
- Pyrite
- Stibnite
- Arsenopyrite
- Feldspar Group
- Jamesonite
- Native Gold
- Phyllite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Slate
- 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 shaft symbols (1)
- mapped adit symbols (6)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 60919
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (9)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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