USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Elko County
Silk Worm Mine
Source Corroborated Lead Underground 2 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Elko
- Mining district
- Contact (48)
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Lead
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Grandiorite Stock With Assoc. Faults, Fractures Replacement Alteration: Oxidation, Replacement Deposit: Vein deposit was discovered by glen moore about 1926. By 1930 40 tons of good grade pb-ag ore had been shipped. The silkworm group comp…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 2 adit symbols
- Adit : Knoll Mountain , 1968
- Adit : Knoll Mountain , 1968
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. -
Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). 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
Source Corroborated
Additional historical source evidence corroborates this record. This is not a member field verification of current conditions.
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
- Cerargyrite
- Galena
- Zincite
- Cerussite
- Chlorargyrite
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
View all 14 reported minerals
- Cerargyrite
- Galena
- Zincite
- Cerussite
- Chlorargyrite
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Diorite
- Dolostone
- Galena
- Hematite
- Quartzite
- Zincite
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: 40984
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (11)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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