USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Mineral County
Desert Scheelite
Unconfirmed Tungsten Mixed Underground / Surface 1 mapped shaft
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Mineral
- Mining district
- Shoshone
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Tungsten
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Cinnabar Canyon And Lost Steers Thrust Faults Tectonics: Basin And Range Deposit type: W skarn Development: Property was idle in 1956. Geology: Country rock/host formation ill-defined Ore(s): Contact Between Granitic Body And Country Rock
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 shaft symbol
- Shaft : Dicalite Summit , 1980
View individual source records (4)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type
- 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
- Calcite
- commodity:Tungsten
- Epidote
- Garnet
- Granite
- Quartz
- Scheelite
- Skarn
View all 9 reported minerals
- Calcite
- commodity:Tungsten
- Epidote
- Garnet
- Granite
- Quartz
- Scheelite
- Skarn
- Tactite
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 (1)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 39752
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (5)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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