USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Pershing County
Bloody Canyon Mine
Source Corroborated Antimony Mixed Underground / Surface 1 mapped shaft 5 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Pershing
- Mining district
- Star District
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Antimony
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Also known as
- Red Star, Hutton, Cosmopolitan
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
An antimony mine located in the Humboldt Range, near Lovelock; Sec 35 T31N R34E. Structure: Reg.Struct: Faults And Cross Faults, Tending N-S, Nne-Ssw, Cause Alot Of Gouge Faults And Cross-Faults Trending N-S, Nne-Ssw Alteration: Silicification, Some …
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 4 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features -
Shaft
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 shaft symbol
- 5 adit symbols
- Shaft : Star Peak , 1987
- Adit : Star Peak , 1987
- Adit : Star Peak , 1987
- Adit : Star Peak , 1987
- Adit : Imlay , 1956
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. -
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.
- USGS MRDS working type: Surface/Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface/Underground · work_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: Producer
Operators / organizations
- Neal, Hybert L. · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Quartz
- Stibnite
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Antimony
- commodity:Iron
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- Limestone
View all 13 reported minerals
- Quartz
- Stibnite
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Antimony
- commodity:Iron
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- Limestone
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Rhyolite
- Stibnite
- Valentinite
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 (5)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 58770
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (11)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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