USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Pershing County
Springer Mine
Unconfirmed Tungsten Underground
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Pershing
- Mining district
- Mill City District
- Development status
- Plant
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Tungsten
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Source classification: Underground operation documented
Specific physical workings are not yet documented in discrete records.
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 17 shaft symbols
- 11 adit symbols
View individual source records (3)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Plant): 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: Plant
Operators / organizations
- Utah International, Inc. (Sub. Of Broken Hills Propietary) · Historical operator · 1983
- Broken Hills Proprietary Ltd. · Source-reported owner · 1983
- General Electric Corp. · Source-reported owner · 1983
- Utah International, Inc. · Historical operator · 1991
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Actinolite
- Arsenopyrite
- Bismuth
- Calcite
- Chalcopyrite
- Epidote
- Garnet
- Molybdenite
View all 15 reported minerals
- Actinolite
- Arsenopyrite
- Bismuth
- Calcite
- Chalcopyrite
- Epidote
- Garnet
- Molybdenite
- Pyrite
- Pyrrhotite
- Quartz
- Scheelite
- Stilbite
- Tremolite
- Turquoise
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 (17)
- mapped adit symbols (11)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
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