USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Lander County
Grey Eagle Mine
Source Corroborated Copper Underground 2 mapped shafts 1 mapped adit
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Lander
- Mining district
- Bullion
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Copper
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 13,14 T29 R46E. Gold silver Structure: Deposit In Upper Plate Of Roberts Mtn. Thrust Fissures, Intrusion Alteration: Intrusive Alterred And Replaced By Sericite, Pyrite. Intrusive Pyrometasomatized The Country Rock Locally Producing A Calc-Silica…
Additional documented 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.
- 2 shaft symbols
- 1 adit symbol
- Shaft : Mt. Lewis , 1949
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
Source Corroborated
Additional historical source evidence corroborates this record. This is not a member field verification of current conditions.
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
- Quartz
- Sericite
- Galena
- Molybdenite
- Powellite
- Pyrite
- Scheelite
- Sphalerite
View all 38 reported minerals
- Quartz
- Sericite
- Galena
- Molybdenite
- Powellite
- Pyrite
- Scheelite
- Sphalerite
- Stibnite
- Tetrahedrite
- Austinite
- Beudantite
- Carminite
- Chlorargyrite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Molybdenum
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Tungsten
- commodity:Zinc
- Covellite
- Diorite
- Galena
- Hornfels
- Mimetite
- Molybdenite
- Muscovite
- Powellite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Quartzite
- Scheelite
- Sericite
- Sphalerite
- Stibnite
- Tetrahedrite Subgroup
- Variscite
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 (1)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 60029
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (28)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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