USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Churchill County
NBMG Sample Site 3835
Unconfirmed Silver Underground 4 mapped shafts 4 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Churchill
- Mining district
- Fairview District
- Development status
- Occurrence
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Deposit: Skarn formation along contact of limey shale with granite. Deposit type: Skarn Zn-Pb Development: Prospected in early 1900's? no activity in 1986.
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.
- 4 shaft symbols
- 4 adit symbols
- Shaft : Bell Canyon , 1972
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: Occurrence
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Epidote
- Garnet
- Quartz
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Manganese
- commodity:Molybdenum
View all 16 reported minerals
- Epidote
- Garnet
- Quartz
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Manganese
- commodity:Molybdenum
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Strontium
- commodity:Zinc
- Epidote
- Garnet Group
- Granite
- Quartz
- Shale
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 (4)
- mapped adit symbols (4)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 416651
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (13)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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