USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Mineral County
Montreal Mine
Mindat Confirmed Silver Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Mineral
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Also known as
- NBMG Sample Site # 3668 & 3669
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Monzonite Cut By Rhyolite Dikes Deposit: Nbmg sample # 3668 was taken from the southern most adit which included gangue minerals of limonite, calcite and possible lead-silver oxides. Nbmg sample # 3669 was taken from quartz stringers and ot…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 1 source record.
Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 9 shaft symbols
- 10 adit symbols
View individual source records (3)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Adit
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: ture: Monzonite Cut By Rhyolite Dikes Deposit: Nbmg sample # 3668 was taken from the southern most adit which included gangue mineral…
- USGS MRDS working type: Surface/Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface/Underground · work_type
Verification
Mindat Confirmed
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why confirmed?
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
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
- Hematite
- Limonite
- Cerargyrite
- Chrysocolla
- Malachite
- Calcite
- Chlorargyrite
View all 19 reported minerals
- Calcite
- Hematite
- Limonite
- Cerargyrite
- Chrysocolla
- Malachite
- Calcite
- Chlorargyrite
- Chrysocolla
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Iron
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- Hematite
- Limonite
- Malachite
- Quartz-monzonite
- Rhyolite
- Shale
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 (9)
- mapped adit symbols (10)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 39410
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (13)
- underground workings
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