USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Eureka County
Black Point
Mindat Confirmed Silver Underground 8 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Eureka
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Also known as
- Silver Ledge and Wynona
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Breccia Zone Deposit: 160 foot adit and connecting workings total 260 feet ; info.src : 1 pub lit Geology: Ore is in qtz and calcite filling breccia zone in carbonate rock. Ore(s): Breccia Zone In Carbonate Rx.
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 2 source records,
noting 160 ft, 260 ft.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features · Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 8 adit symbols
- Adit : Rattlesnake Mountain , 1990
View individual source records (4)
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. -
Adit
· length 160 ft
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: Structure: Breccia Zone Deposit: 160 foot adit and connecting workings total 260 feet ; info.src : 1 pub lit Geology: Ore is in qtz a…
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Underground · oper_type
Verification
Mindat Confirmed
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why confirmed?
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
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
- Calcite
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- Quartz
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 adit symbols (8)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 438636
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (5)
- underground workings
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