USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Humboldt County
Mountain Queen
Unconfirmed Tungsten Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Humboldt
- Mining district
- Potosi District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Tungsten
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Tnt, Flat Creek
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Alteration: Bleaching Deposit: On contact of N end of granodiorite stock and calcareous sedimentary rocks. Thin discontinuous lenses of limestone and limey hornfels are interbedded in argillaceous hornfels striking generally N with random dip E and W…
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Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface, Underground · work_type
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Surface-Underground · oper_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Iron
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Tungsten
- commodity:Zinc
- Diorite
- Galena
View all 13 reported minerals
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Iron
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Tungsten
- commodity:Zinc
- Diorite
- Galena
- Meta-argillite
- Pyrrhotite
- Scheelite
- Skarn
- Sphalerite
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 429951
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (13)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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