USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Eureka County
Cortez Silver Mine
Unconfirmed Silver Underground 1 mapped shaft 7 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Eureka
- Mining district
- Cortez District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Garrison, Arctic, St. Lows, Fitzgerald, Cortez Metals Mine, Mt. Tenabo
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
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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
- 7 adit symbols
- Shaft : Cortez , 1986
View individual source records (3)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_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
Operators / organizations
- Cortez Gold Mines Co. (Present) · Historical operator / Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Argentite
- Cerargyrite
- Chalcopyrite
- Malachite
- Pyrite
- Sphalerite
- Stibnite
- Stromeyerite
View all 9 reported minerals
- Argentite
- Cerargyrite
- Chalcopyrite
- Malachite
- Pyrite
- Sphalerite
- Stibnite
- Stromeyerite
- Tetrahedrite
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 (7)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
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