USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Pershing County
Rose Creek
Unconfirmed Tungsten Underground 2 mapped shafts 5 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Pershing
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Tungsten
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 6 T34N R37E. Tactite (amphiboles and pyroxene, but no garnet). Structure: Dikes And Faults Faults, Basic Dikes Alteration: Argillite To Hornfels Deposit: Tungsten content ranges from 1.3 to 5 % wo3, As much As 1.5 % cu and As much As 0.14 oz au…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 3 source records.
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.
- 2 shaft symbols
- 5 adit symbols
- Shaft : Rose Creek , 1958
- Adit : Rose Creek , 1958
- Adit : Rose Creek , 1958
- Adit : Rose Creek Mtn. , 1982
View individual source records (7)
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. -
Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
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
- 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
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Actinolite
- Apatite
- Argillite
- Arsenopyrite
- Calcite
- Carbonate rock
- Chalcanthite
- Chalcopyrite
View all 35 reported minerals
- Actinolite
- Apatite
- Argillite
- Arsenopyrite
- Calcite
- Carbonate rock
- Chalcanthite
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Arsenic
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Manganese
- commodity:Molybdenum
- commodity:Tungsten
- commodity:Zinc
- Copper Stain
- Diopside
- Dolerite
- Epidote
- Feldspar Group
- Limonite
- Molybdenite
- Mudstone
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Sandstone
- Scheelite
- Shale
- Siltstone
- Sphalerite
- Sphene
- Titanite
- Tremolite
- Volcanic rock
- Zoisite
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 (5)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 58486
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (34)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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