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Key facts

State: Nevada
County: White Pine
Mining district: Currant Creek
Development status: Past Producer
Mine type: Mixed underground / surface
Primary commodity: Magnesite
Verification: Unconfirmed

Mine Location

Approximate Area

Documented underground workings

Mindat locality description

Structure: Faulting Geology: The magnesite forms dense white nodules that range in length from a fraction of an inch to several ft within the mass of altered material magnesite occurs through a zone 1000 feet long and up to 200 feet wide, with nodules…

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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.

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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: Past Producer

Operators / organizations

C. E. Munson · Source-reported owner

Commodities & minerals

Magnesite · primary

Reported minerals

Magnesite
Andesite
commodity:Magnesite
Magnesite
Quartz-latite
Rhyodacite
Tuff

Access & recent conditions

Land: unknown

Community reports

No community field reports yet.

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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: 59039

Supports:

locality identity
reported minerals (6)

A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.

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Documented shaft evidence

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