USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Pershing County
Lakeview Mine
Source Corroborated Tungsten Mixed Underground / Surface 9 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Pershing
- Mining district
- Imlay District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Tungsten
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Also known as
- Humboldt Canyon Mine, NBMG Sample Site 2509.
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 6-7 T31N R34E Alteration: Silicification Deposit: Veins are commonly only a few inches thick and consist mainly of quartz with lesser amounts of fluorite, muscovite, tourmaline, colorless beryl and pyrite. The scheelite-beryl deposit is in limest…
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.
- 9 adit symbols
- Adit : Star Peak , 1987
View individual source records (3)
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.
- USGS MRDS working type: Surface/Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface/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
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- United Strategic Metals Co. Lakeview Tungsten Corp. · Historical operator
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Chlorite
- Diopside
- Fluorite
- Mica
- Muscovite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Sericite
View all 28 reported minerals
- Chlorite
- Diopside
- Fluorite
- Mica
- Muscovite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Sericite
- Tourmaline
- Beryl
- Gold
- Scheelite
- Beryl
- Chlorite Group
- commodity:Beryllium
- commodity:Mica
- commodity:Tungsten
- Diopside
- Fluorite
- Limestone
- Mica Group
- Muscovite
- Native Gold
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Scheelite
- Sericite
- Tourmaline
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 (9)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 58239
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (16)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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Documented adit evidence
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Historical mapped workings available