USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Lander County
Buffalo Valley Mine
Source Corroborated Gold Mixed Underground / Surface 4 mapped shafts 2 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Lander
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 33 T32N R42E Structure: Golconda Thrust The Havallah Sequence Of The Buffalo Valley Mine Has A Homoclinal Appearance. With Certain Exceptions, Beds Strike Nw To Slightly East Of North And Generally Dip 45-65 SW Or West. Buffalo Valley Mine Is Si…
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 4 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features -
Adit
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 4 shaft symbols
- 2 adit symbols
- Shaft : Antler Peak , 1984
- Shaft : Antler Peak , 1984
- Shaft : Antler Peak , 1984
- Shaft : Antler Peak , 1984
- Adit : Antler Peak , 1984
- Adit : Antler Peak , 1984
View individual source records (8)
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. -
Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- USGS MRDS working type: Surface/Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface/Underground · work_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
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Producer
Operators / organizations
- Buffalo Valley Mines Co. ; Horizon Gold Shares Inc. · Historical operator
- Buffalo Valley Mines Co. · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Biotite
- Clinozoisite
- Diopside
- Epidote
- Quartz
- Chalcopyrite
- Chrysocolla
- Gold
View all 34 reported minerals
- Biotite
- Clinozoisite
- Diopside
- Epidote
- Quartz
- Chalcopyrite
- Chrysocolla
- Gold
- Hematite
- Limonite
- Malachite
- Biotite
- Carbonate-rich Fluorapatite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chrysocolla
- Clinozoisite
- commodity:Arsenic
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Nickel
- commodity:Silver
- Copper Stain
- Diopside
- Epidote
- Fluorapatite
- Hematite
- Limonite
- Malachite
- Mitridatite
- Native Gold
- Pyrite
- Pyrrhotite
- Quartz
- Quartzite
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 (4)
- mapped adit symbols (2)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 59840
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (23)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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