USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Nye County
Corcoran Canyon Project
Unconfirmed Silver Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Nye
- Mining district
- Barcelona District
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Silver Reef Prospect, Silver Reef claims, NBMG sample site 3187
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: A northeast-trending structural zone defined by alteration, veining, gold-silver mineralization, faulting and intrusions. fractures associated with the margin of the Mount Jefferson caldera Alteration: Host rocks have been silicified, argil…
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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=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: Producer
Operators / organizations
- Brancote U. S., Inc. · Historical operator · 2004
- Corcoran Canyon Mining Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bullion River Gold Corp. · Source-reported owner · 2004
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Quartz
- Alunite
- Clay
- Gold
- Pyrargyrite
- Pyrite
- Sericite
- Alunite
View all 23 reported minerals
- Quartz
- Alunite
- Clay
- Gold
- Pyrargyrite
- Pyrite
- Sericite
- Alunite
- Clay
- commodity:Antimony
- commodity:Arsenic
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Mercury
- commodity:Molybdenum
- commodity:Silver
- Muscovite
- Native Gold
- Pyrargyrite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Rhyolite
- Sericite
- Tuff
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: 432379
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (16)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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