USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Humboldt County
Silver Butte Mine
Mindat Confirmed Silver Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Humboldt
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Considerable Folding Of Sediments Considerable Folding Of Sediments Deposit: Upper adit leads into large caving stope on n-s, 70w-dipping vein of crushed quartz containing pyrite on footwall (east), a kaolinized rhyolite porphyry dike on ha…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 1 source record.
Mindat -
Stope
— documented in 1 source record.
Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 5 shaft symbols
- 18 adit symbols
View individual source records (4)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Adit
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: Structure: Considerable Folding Of Sediments Considerable Folding Of Sediments Deposit: Upper adit leads into large caving stope on n… -
Stope
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: Folding Of Sediments Considerable Folding Of Sediments Deposit: Upper adit leads into large caving stope on n-s, 70w-dipping vein of…
- USGS MRDS working type: Surface/Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface/Underground · work_type
Verification
Mindat Confirmed
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why confirmed?
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Argentite
- Cerargyrite
- Pyrargyrite
- Pyrite
- Sphalerite
- Acanthite
- Chlorargyrite
- commodity:Arsenic
View all 19 reported minerals
- Argentite
- Cerargyrite
- Pyrargyrite
- Pyrite
- Sphalerite
- Acanthite
- Chlorargyrite
- commodity:Arsenic
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Iron
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Pyrargyrite
- Pyrite
- Rhyolite
- Schist
- Slate
- Sphalerite
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 (5)
- mapped adit symbols (18)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 63288
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (14)
- underground workings
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