USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Eureka County
Bullwacker Mine
Unconfirmed Silver Underground
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Eureka
- Mining district
- Eureka District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Series Of Small Vertical Faults Cut The Tilted & Domed Beds Deposit: Oxidized irregular replacement ore bodies and fissures in limestone host the mine produced 4,654 tons of ore valued at $116,069 from 1876-1894. The property is located on …
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 51 shaft symbols
- 11 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Underground · oper_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
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Arsenopyrite
- Beudantite
- Chalcocite
- commodity:Arsenic
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
View all 15 reported minerals
- Arsenopyrite
- Beudantite
- Chalcocite
- commodity:Arsenic
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Galena
- Hemimorphite
- Hydrozincite
- Limonite
- Plumbojarosite
- Sphalerite
- Tennantite Subgroup
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 (51)
- mapped adit symbols (11)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 60686
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (15)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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