USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Churchill County
Lofthouse Mine
Source Corroborated Antimony Mixed Underground / Surface 4 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Churchill
- Mining district
- Bernice District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Antimony
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Also known as
- Dyer Canyon Prospect, Danielson Prospect
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Dyer Canyon Alteration: Silicification; Sericitization Deposit: Quartz veins are 2 to 30 inches wide and have some calcite. Stibnite occurs As pods, veinlets and single crystals in veins this record is an updated version which includes information fr…
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.
- 4 adit symbols
- Adit : Clan Alpine Ranch , 1966
- Adit : Byers Canyon , 1990
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.
- 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
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
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Calcite
- Cervantite
- Jamesonite
- Kermesite
- Limestone
- Native Sulphur
- Quartz
- Quartzite
View all 13 reported minerals
- Calcite
- Cervantite
- Jamesonite
- Kermesite
- Limestone
- Native Sulphur
- Quartz
- Quartzite
- Sandstone
- Slate
- Stibnite
- Tetrahedrite Subgroup
- Valentinite
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: 60926
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (13)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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