USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Humboldt County
Buckskin National Mine
Source Corroborated Gold Underground 8 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Humboldt
- Mining district
- National Mining District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 11 T45N R39E. Gold Silver [[1]]Located on the eastern slope of Buckskin Mountain, the Buckskin National deposit is hosted by ~700-m-thick succession of Early Miocene (16.57 ± 0.03 to 16.11 ± 0.03 Ma) massive rhyolite and associated volcaniclastic …
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 8 adit symbols
- Adit : Mc Dermitt , 1959
- Adit : Buckskin Mountain , 1991
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
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Underground · oper_type
Verification
Source Corroborated
Additional historical source evidence corroborates this record. This is not a member field verification of current conditions.
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
- Acanthite
- Adularia
- Aguilarite
- Andesite
- Arsenopyrite
- Bornite
- Calcite
- Chalcedony
View all 38 reported minerals
- Acanthite
- Adularia
- Aguilarite
- Andesite
- Arsenopyrite
- Bornite
- Calcite
- Chalcedony
- Chalcopyrite
- Clausthalite
- commodity:Antimony
- commodity:Arsenic
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Iron
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Electrum
- Galena
- K Feldspar
- Marcasite
- Miargyrite
- Native Gold
- Native Silver
- Naumannite
- Opal
- Pyrargyrite
- Pyrite
- Pyroclastic-rock
- Quartz
- Quartz-latite
- Rhyolite
- Siliceous sinter
- Sinter
- Sphalerite
- 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 adit symbols (8)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 59694
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (38)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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