USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Elko County
Hice
Source Corroborated Tungsten Underground 1 mapped shaft 1 mapped adit
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Elko
- Mining district
- Contact (48)
- Development status
- Occurrence
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Tungsten
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Granodiorite Stock With Assoc. Faults, Fractures Deposit: The property is on a minor ridge of faulted (brecciated) and slickensided tertiary lake beds. Abreccia composed of paleozoic sedimentary rocks (jasper, barite, quartz, cerusite) crop…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features -
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
- 1 adit symbol
- Adit : Blanchard Mtn. , 1968
- Shaft : Blanchard Mtn. , 1968
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. -
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
Verification
Source Corroborated
Additional historical source evidence corroborates this record. This is not a member field verification of current conditions.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Occurrence
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Baryte
- Cerussite
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Tungsten
- Diorite
- Jasper
View all 10 reported minerals
- Baryte
- Cerussite
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Tungsten
- Diorite
- Jasper
- Quartz
- Quartzite
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 (1)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 40962
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (10)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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