USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Pershing County
Antimony Ike
Unconfirmed Antimony Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Pershing
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Antimony
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Metzger, Black Diamond
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 2 T30N R38E Alteration: The Rocks In The Vicinity Are Locally Silicified And Argillized. Deposit: A narrow quartz-antimony vein near the contact of the pumpernickel formation and leucogranite. The vein is on the contact in places but more commonl…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 shaft symbol
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Surface-Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Surface-Underground · oper_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Argillite
- Chert
- commodity:Antimony
- commodity:Arsenic
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Granite
View all 15 reported minerals
- Argillite
- Chert
- commodity:Antimony
- commodity:Arsenic
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Granite
- Greenstone
- Native Gold
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Quartzite
- Stibnite
- 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)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 58224
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (15)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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