USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Eureka County
Onondaga
Unconfirmed Silver Underground 3 mapped shafts 5 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Eureka
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 17 T31N R51E. Contains the Ruby and Malachite claims. Silver. Structure: Nw Trending Faults Alteration: Volcanics Widely Propylitized With A Pyrite Halo Around The Mineralized Area Deposit: About 1000 feet southeast of the zenoli mine. Most prod…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features -
Shaft
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 3 shaft symbols
- 5 adit symbols
- Adit : Beowawe , 1957
- Shaft : Scotts Gulch , 1985
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. -
Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- Silver Bromide Mining Co · Historical operator
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Barite
- Calcite
- Quartz
- Argentite
- Galena
- Pyrite
- Sphalerite
- Acanthite
View all 26 reported minerals
- Barite
- Calcite
- Quartz
- Argentite
- Galena
- Pyrite
- Sphalerite
- Acanthite
- Andesite
- Baryte
- Calcite
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Cuprite
- Galena
- Goethite
- Limonite
- Malachite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Sphalerite
- Wad
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 (3)
- mapped adit symbols (5)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 60674
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (19)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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