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Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Pershing County
Bottomley
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
- Stibnite, Poker Brown ?
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Quartz veins in sandstone, noteworthy for stibnite-included quartz crystals sparsely distributed in some veins. Some quartz crystals also exhibit uncommon s- and x-faces. Many veins are brecciated to varying extents. Stibiconite is present as a weather…
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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
- Cervantite
- commodity:Antimony
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Iron
- commodity:Silver
- Goethite
- Limonite
- Oxyplumboroméite
View all 14 reported minerals
- Cervantite
- commodity:Antimony
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Iron
- commodity:Silver
- Goethite
- Limonite
- Oxyplumboroméite
- Quartz
- Quartzite
- Sandstone
- Shale
- Stibiconite
- Stibnite
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 62960
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (14)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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Historical mapped workings available