White Knolls | UndergroundMines

Key facts

State: Nevada
County: White Pine
Mining district: Currant Creek
Development status: Occurrence
Mine type: Mixed underground / surface
Primary commodity: Magnesite
Verification: Mindat Confirmed

Mine Location

Approximate Area

Documented underground workings

Mindat locality description

Structure: Fault Limits The Deposit On The East Side Geology: Neither lenses nor nodules of magnesite were observed, though analyses of samples taken from the shaft are reported to indicate magnesitic material. Analysis showed increase of silica with …

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Additional documented workings

Shaft — documented in 1 source record.
Mindat

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Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.

Shaft
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: y: Neither lenses nor nodules of magnesite were observed, though analyses of samples taken from the shaft are reported to indicate ma…

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.

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Why it's listed

Source records document both underground and surface mining.

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History & operations

Historical record

Development status: Occurrence

Commodities & minerals

Magnesite · primary

Reported minerals

Magnesite
Andesite
commodity:Magnesite
Magnesite
Quartz-latite
Rhyodacite
Tuff

Access & recent conditions

Land: unknown

Community reports

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Sources & evidence

USGS Mineral Resources Data System

Type: Historical mine record

Supports:

mine identity
development status
commodities
underground eligibility evidence

Mindat

Type: Mineralogical locality database

Record: Mindat Locality: 59044