USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Nye County
Nyco
Unconfirmed Silica Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Nye
- Mining district
- Quinn Canyon District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Silica
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Spar #2, Spar #1
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Deposit: General size of ore body is medium.
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 2 adit symbols
View individual source records (3)
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): 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
Operators / organizations
- Teledyne Wah Chang, Los Angeles, Ca · Historical operator · 1957
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- commodity:Fluorite (Fluorspar)
- commodity:Magnesite
- commodity:Silica
- Fluorite
- Kaolinite
- Muscovite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
View all 9 reported minerals
- commodity:Fluorite (Fluorspar)
- commodity:Magnesite
- commodity:Silica
- Fluorite
- Kaolinite
- Muscovite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Sericite
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 (2)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 40397
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (9)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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