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Nevada · Pershing County

Needle Peak Mine

Unconfirmed Fluorine-Fluorite Mixed Underground / Surface

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Key facts

State
Nevada
County
Pershing
Mining district
Mount Tobin District
Development status
Past Producer
Mine type
Mixed underground / surface
Primary commodity
Fluorine-Fluorite
Verification
Unconfirmed

Mine Location

Approximate Area

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Documented underground workings

Mindat locality description

Sec 8 T28N R40E Structure: Shear Zone, Fault Alteration: Silicification Deposit: In breccia zone As fracture fillings, vugs, veinlets. Earliest known mining location was by m. Allard & t. Johanson in 1950 with production of 1 carload in 1951. Reloca…

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  • USGS MRDS working type: Surface/Underground
  • MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface/Underground · work_type

Verification

Unconfirmed

Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.

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Why it's listed

Source records document both underground and surface mining.

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History & operations

Historical record

  • Development status: Past Producer

Commodities & minerals

Reported minerals

  • Fluorite
  • commodity:Fluorite (Fluorspar)
  • Fluorite
  • Limestone
  • Rhyolite

Access & recent conditions

Land
unknown

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Sources & evidence

USGS Mineral Resources Data System

Type: Historical mine record

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  • mine identity
  • development status
  • commodities
  • underground eligibility evidence

Mindat

Type: Mineralogical locality database

Record: Mindat Locality: 58339

Supports:

  • locality identity
  • reported minerals (4)

A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.

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