USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Mineral County
Hitt Mine
Source Corroborated Mercury Underground 3 mapped shafts 5 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Mineral
- Mining district
- Pilot Mountains District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Mercury
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Bedding Planes, Faults Commodity: Ore bodies small but of high grade Rock formation(s): Dunlap Formation Ore(s): Nw Trending Fault
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 3 shaft symbols
- 5 adit symbols
- Adit : Eddyville , 1980
- Adit : Eddyville , 1980
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. -
Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). 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: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- Bert Hilt, Mina, Nevada · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Calcite
- Cinnabar
- Calcite
- Cinnabar
- Clay
- commodity:Mercury
- Sandstone
- 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 (3)
- mapped adit symbols (5)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 39758
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (6)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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