USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Churchill County
Red Ant Mine
Mindat Confirmed Tungsten Underground 2 mapped shafts 1 mapped adit
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Churchill
- Mining district
- Sand Springs
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Tungsten
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Also known as
- Revely, East End, Big Chief, South Sand Springs, V. Cye Cox, Mc Coy, Red Bird
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Deposit type: W skarn Scheelite occurs in tactite along a limestone granite contact which trends nw from the shaft. The contact has been traced NW along strike for about 300 ft. Ore was reportedly present at bottom of 60-ft shaft. The limestone is st…
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 2 source records,
noting 60 ft, 300 ft.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features · Mindat -
Adit
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 2 shaft symbols
- 1 adit symbol
- Shaft : Fourmile Canyon , 1979
- Adit : Fourmile Canyon , 1979
View individual source records (5)
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. -
Shaft
· depth 60 ft
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: e: W skarn Scheelite occurs in tactite along a limestone granite contact which trends nw from the shaft. The contact has been traced…
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Underground · oper_type
Verification
Mindat Confirmed
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why confirmed?
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Epidote
- Garnet Group
- Granite
- Limestone
- Native Copper
- Quartz
- Scheelite
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 (2)
- mapped adit symbols (1)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 65011
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (7)
- underground workings
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