USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Elko County
Bull Run Mine
Mindat Confirmed Gold Underground 3 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Elko
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Also known as
- Butte, Ina, Pedlar Mines, Edgar, Half Moon, Leonard, Colorado, Golden Rule, Gardner, Patented Claims:, Dyke, Lovelock, Bunker Hill, Grandview, Scranton, Decoration
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Alteration: Sulphides Leached Out Of Upper Workings Deposit: Fissure vein, with quartzite sheeted parallel to vein. In 1902 a 10-stamp, amalgamating mill was built, near the lowest adit, later closed due to its inaccessabilty. About $120,000 was recor…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 3 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features · Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 3 adit symbols
- Adit : Bull Run Reservoir , 1987
- Adit : Bull Run , 1956
View individual source records (5)
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. -
Adit
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: uartzite sheeted parallel to vein. In 1902 a 10-stamp, amalgamating mill was built, near the lowest adit, later closed due to its ina…
- 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
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- Galena
- Native Gold
- Shale
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 (3)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 427792
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (5)
- underground workings
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