USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Nye County
San Rafael Mine
Unconfirmed Silver Underground
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Nye
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former Ag-Pb-Au occurrence/deposit/mine. It was mainly active in the 1920s as the largest mine in the old Quartz Mountain District. The ore-bearing vein was cut off by a fault, so the size of the deposit was limited.
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 20 shaft symbols
- 2 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- 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
- Exploration Ltd. · Historical operator
- San Rafall Consolidated Mines Co. · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Galena
- Gold
- Adamite
- Agardite
- Agardite-(Y)
- Andesite
- Anglesite
- Aragonite
View all 40 reported minerals
- Galena
- Gold
- Adamite
- Agardite
- Agardite-(Y)
- Andesite
- Anglesite
- Aragonite
- Arseniosiderite
- Arsenopyrite
- Aurichalcite
- Austinite
- Azurite
- Bayldonite
- Beudantite
- Brochantite
- Bromargyrite
- Calcite
- Caledonite
- Carminite
- Cerussite
- Chalcanthite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chlorargyrite
- Chrysocolla
- Conichalcite
- Copper-bearing Adamite
- Corkite
- Cornubite
- Cornwallite
- Coronadite
- Covellite
- Duftite
- Epsomite
- Galena
- Goethite
- Gypsum
- Hawleyite
- Hematite
- Hemimorphite
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 (20)
- mapped adit symbols (2)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 40175
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (38)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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