USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Humboldt County
Niebuhr Mine
Mindat Confirmed Mercury Underground 2 mapped shafts 1 mapped adit
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Humboldt
- Mining district
- Bottle Creek District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Mercury
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Also known as
- Niebuhr, Sunset-Big Four Group
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 36 T41N T32E Structure: N-Trending, Steep-Dipping Faults Faults Strike N55-70e, Dip 65-90 Sw. Alteration: Silicified Rhyolite Commodity: One flask per 5 tons Deposit: Open cut 1400 feet NW of shaft phyllite/shear zone; cinnabar and iron oxi…
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 2 source records,
noting 1400 ft.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features · Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 2 shaft symbols
- 1 adit symbol
- Shaft : Bottle Creek , 1961
View individual source records (4)
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. -
Shaft
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: Alteration: Silicified Rhyolite Commodity: One flask per 5 tons Deposit: Open cut 1400 feet NW of shaft phyllite/shear zone; cinnabar…
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Underground · oper_type
Verification
Mindat Confirmed
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why confirmed?
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
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
- Cinnabar
- commodity:Mercury
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: 59633
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (2)
- underground workings
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