USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Washoe County
Galena Hill Mine
Unconfirmed Lead Mixed Underground / Surface 1 mapped shaft 2 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Washoe
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Lead
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Walker Lane Fault System Shear Zone Alteration: Cerrussite And Hemimorphite Are Present Deposit: At present,it is not possible to see evidence of the old mine workings mentioned by humphrey. ; info.src : 1 pub lit Development: Ore produce…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— 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
- 2 adit symbols
- Adit : Mt. Rose , 1950
View individual source records (4)
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.
- Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: ite And Hemimorphite Are Present Deposit: At present,it is not possible to see evidence of the old mine workings mentioned by humphrey. ; info.src : 1 pub lit Development: O…
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Surface-Underground
- 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
- Cerussite
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Diorite
- Hemimorphite
- Hornfels
View all 11 reported minerals
- Cerussite
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Diorite
- Hemimorphite
- Hornfels
- Jarosite
- Limonite
- Wad
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)
- mapped adit symbols (2)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 43215
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (11)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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