USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Humboldt County
Granite Creek
Unconfirmed Tungsten Mixed Underground / Surface 3 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Humboldt
- Mining district
- Potosi District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Tungsten
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Secs. 29 & 30 T38N R42E. Tactite. Structure: Folds, Faults Alteration: Contact Metamorphism Deposit: Scheelite is irregularly distributed and is entirely absent from much of the tactite. Where the contact is about parallel to the strike of the limes…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 3 adit symbols
- Adit : Adam Peak , 1988
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.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past 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: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- Getchell Mine Inc. · Historical operator · 1972
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Calcite
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Tungsten
- Diorite
- Epidote
- Garnet
- Limestone
- Molybdenite
View all 12 reported minerals
- Calcite
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Tungsten
- Diorite
- Epidote
- Garnet
- Limestone
- Molybdenite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Scheelite
- Tactite
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 (3)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 59659
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (8)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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