USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Humboldt County
Ole Boy Mine
Unconfirmed Silver Mixed Underground / Surface 2 mapped shafts 1 mapped adit
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Humboldt
- Mining district
- Jungo Area
- Development status
- Occurrence
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- NBMG Sample Site 2426
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Fault Zone Deposit: Milky-white brecciated Fe-stained quartz vein with drusy appearance. Occurs in a fault zone in monzonite(?) intrusive. Deposit type: Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein Development: Claims staked june 2, 1984 by present owner O…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features -
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
- Adit : Sugarloaf Knob , 1981
- Shaft : Sugarloaf Knob , 1981
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. -
Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- 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.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Occurrence
Operators / organizations
- Laura Savoy, · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Quartz
- commodity:Antimony
- commodity:Arsenic
- commodity:Cadmium
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Manganese
View all 12 reported minerals
- Quartz
- commodity:Antimony
- commodity:Arsenic
- commodity:Cadmium
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Manganese
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Monzonite
- Quartz
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: 430026
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (11)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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