USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Lincoln County
Geyser Mine
Unconfirmed Tungsten Underground 4 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Lincoln
- Mining district
- Patterson District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Tungsten
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Geyser, Lake Valley Mine
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
7 or 8? T9N R65E. Silver vein (Patterson District?) Commodities: Fluorine-Fluorite Gold Silver Tungsten Alteration: Oxidation Tectonics: Basin Range Province Deposit type: W veins Development: G z claims located on 5/6/81 nearby Geology: Post mi…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 4 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 4 adit symbols
- Adit : Mt. Grafton , 1978
- Adit : Mt. Grafton , 1978
- Adit : Mt. Grafton , 1978
- Adit : Mt. Grafton , 1978
View individual source records (6)
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
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.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Underground · oper_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
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:Molybdenum
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Tungsten
- Fluorite
- Hematite
- Limonite
- Muscovite
- Quartz
View all 11 reported minerals
- commodity:Molybdenum
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Tungsten
- Fluorite
- Hematite
- Limonite
- Muscovite
- Quartz
- Quartzite
- Sericite
- Wolframite Group
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 (4)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 57885
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (11)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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