USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Nye County
Sierra Nevada Mine
Unconfirmed Silver Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Nye
- Mining district
- Jefferson Canyon District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Claims of Jefferson Gold and Silver Mining Co.: Sierra Nevada,, Union-South, Oregon, Admiral, Monitor, Starry-Flag, Bryan, Kearsage,, Maine, New York, Missouri, Berlin, Prussian Fraction, Alabama,, Jefferson Cross., Kanr
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Alteration: Silicification Deposit: 3 veins: the bryan vein; sierra nevada vein; jefferson cross vein Development: Sierra nevada, or kanrohat vein. A mill was constructed on this property in 1909 by NEW york people, but shut down because of litigatio…
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Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- 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: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Quartz
- Rhodochrosite
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- Granite
- Limestone
- Quartz
- Rhodochrosite
View all 9 reported minerals
- Quartz
- Rhodochrosite
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- Granite
- Limestone
- Quartz
- Rhodochrosite
- Rhyolite
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 436537
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (7)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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