USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Storey County
Castle Peak Quicksilver Mine
Unconfirmed Mercury Underground 2 mapped shafts 2 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Storey
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Mercury
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A mercury mine located about 8 miles North of Virginia City. Structure: Joint Sets And Faults Alteration: Argillization, Alunitization Deposit: Volcanic pipelike orebodies at intersection of joints, and orebodies localized along a n-trending fault t…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 1 source record.
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.
- 2 shaft symbols
- 2 adit symbols
- Shaft : Steamboat , 1967
- Adit : Steamboat , 1967
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. -
Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- 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
- Andesite
- Ankerite
- Baryte
- Calcite
- Calomel
- Cinnabar
- commodity:Mercury
- Dolomite
View all 12 reported minerals
- Andesite
- Ankerite
- Baryte
- Calcite
- Calomel
- Cinnabar
- commodity:Mercury
- Dolomite
- Gypsum
- Native Mercury
- Pyrite
- Quartz
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 (2)
- mapped adit symbols (2)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 9676
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (12)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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