USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Churchill County
Blue Eagle Group
Source Corroborated Antimony Mixed Underground / Surface 2 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Churchill
- Mining district
- Bernice District
- Development status
- Occurrence
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Antimony
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 2 adit symbols
- Adit : Byers Canyon , 1990
View individual source records (3)
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.
- 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: Occurrence
Operators / organizations
- Volks, E. E. · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Quartz
- Gold
- Stibnite
- Quartz
- 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 adit symbols (2)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 60922
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (2)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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