USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Eureka County
Silver Bell Claims
Mindat Confirmed Lead Mixed Underground / Surface 5 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Eureka
- Mining district
- Diamond District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Lead
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Deposit: Quartz veins in fissures and along bedding planes about 500 feet of underground workings present in 1938. This group of claims (13) was located in may 1934 on ground that had been prospected prior to 1900. Workings include several short adits …
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 4 source records,
noting 500 ft.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features · Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 5 adit symbols
- Adit : Rattlesnake Mountain , 1990
- Adit : Rattlesnake Mountain , 1990
- Adit : Rattlesnake Mountain , 1990
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. -
Adit
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: ocated in may 1934 on ground that had been prospected prior to 1900. Workings include several short adits ... Historical context: ure…
- USGS MRDS working type: Surface/Underground
- Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: Deposit: Quartz veins in fissures and along bedding planes about 500 feet of underground workings present in 1938. This group of claims (13) was located in may 1934 on groun…
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface/Underground · work_type
Verification
Mindat Confirmed
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why confirmed?
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Chalcopyrite
- Galena
- Smithsonite
- Sphalerite
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Antimony
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Lead
View all 15 reported minerals
- Chalcopyrite
- Galena
- Smithsonite
- Sphalerite
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Antimony
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Galena
- Limestone
- Quartzite
- Smithsonite
- Sphalerite
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 (5)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 60604
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (11)
- underground workings
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