USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Eureka County
Eagle Roost
Mindat Confirmed Silver Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Eureka
- Mining district
- Diamond District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Deposit: Pods of quartz and calcite along a vein/shear zone contain cerrusite workings consist of a 30 foot adit and 45 ft. Pit. ; info.src : 1 pub lit Development: 30-ft. Adit and 45 ft. Pit Geology: Pods of quartz and calcite containing cerrusite i…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 1 source record,
noting 30 ft, 45 ft.
Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 10 adit symbols
View individual source records (3)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Adit
· length 30 ft
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: Pods of quartz and calcite along a vein/shear zone contain cerrusite workings consist of a 30 foot adit and 45 ft. Pit. ; info.src :…
- USGS MRDS working type: Surface/Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface/Underground · work_type
Verification
Mindat Confirmed
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why confirmed?
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- Bay, J. L. · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Cerussite
- Calcite
- Cerussite
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- Dolostone
- Quartz
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 (10)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 60608
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (6)
- underground workings
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