USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Churchill County
Bluff Mine
Mindat Confirmed Silver Underground 4 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Churchill
- Mining district
- Fairview District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Also known as
- Nevada Fairview Mine ?
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Deposit: Adit is on west side of a huge silicified and partly brecciated andesite or dacite near its contact with an intrusive that outcrops, fiuing the canyon on both sides standing 20-30 ft high and 20-30 ft thick. It can be traced on the surface for…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 2 source records,
noting 30 ft.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features · Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 4 adit symbols
- 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
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: Deposit: Adit is on west side of a huge silicified and partly brecciated andesite or dacite near its contact with an intrusive that o…
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Underground · oper_type
Verification
Mindat Confirmed
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why confirmed?
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
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
- Andesite
- Coarse-grained ("plutonic") crystalline igneous rock
- Dacite
- 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 adit symbols (4)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 307646
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (4)
- underground workings
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