USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Washoe County
Silver Fox Mine
Unconfirmed Gold Underground 1 mapped shaft 4 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Washoe
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Fault Deposit: Quartz vein along fault zone; sulfides constitute up to 15% of the vein material. Quartz vein associated with altered granitic dike Deposit type: Polymetallic veins Development: No activity in 1984. Lots of 4x4 claim posts a…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 shaft symbol
- 4 adit symbols
- Adit : Smith Canyon , 1980
View individual source records (3)
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.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Underground · oper_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
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
- commodity:Antimony
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- Granite
- Jamesonite
- Limestone
View all 13 reported minerals
- commodity:Antimony
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- Granite
- Jamesonite
- Limestone
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Schist
- Sphalerite
- Tetrahedrite Subgroup
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 (1)
- mapped adit symbols (4)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 43203
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (13)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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