USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Storey County
Flowery Mine
Unconfirmed Gold Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Storey
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Source classification: Underground operation documented
Specific physical workings are not yet documented in discrete records.
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 5 shaft symbols
- 4 adit symbols
View individual source records (3)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Producer): Surface-Underground · oper_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Producer
Operators / organizations
- Flowery Mines Co. (1920'S) · Historical operator
- Miramar Mining Corp., (Mmc) · Source-reported owner · 1996
- American Eagle Resources, Inc. (Affli. Of MMC) · Historical operator · 1997
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Alunite
- Chlorite
- Dickite
- Illite
- Kaolinite
- Quartz
- Chalcopyrite
- Galena
View all 13 reported minerals
- Alunite
- Chlorite
- Dickite
- Illite
- Kaolinite
- Quartz
- Chalcopyrite
- Galena
- Gold
- Iron
- Pyrite
- Silver
- Sphalerite
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 (5)
- mapped adit symbols (4)
- other mapped underground symbols
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 43414
Supports:
- locality identity
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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