USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Elko County
Silver Cloud Mine
Unconfirmed Mercury Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Elko
- Mining district
- Ivanhoe District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Mercury
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Clipper, Maddeford-Smith
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: N Trending Syncline 1500 Ft Wide Minor Drag Folds Along Steep Normal Faults Alteration: Silicification; Hydrothermal Alteration Tectonics: Basin And Range Deposit: Blanket deposit occupies 1500 ft wide N - trending syncline Development: …
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Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- USGS MRDS working type: Surface/Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface/Underground · work_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- R. O. Camozzi · Historical operator
- Mrs. Elfrida Pangborn · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Alunite
- Chalcedony
- Opal
- Cinnabar
- Metacinnabar
- Alunite
- Andesite
- Chalcedony
View all 14 reported minerals
- Alunite
- Chalcedony
- Opal
- Cinnabar
- Metacinnabar
- Alunite
- Andesite
- Chalcedony
- Cinnabar
- commodity:Mercury
- Metacinnabar
- Opal
- Quartz
- Rhyolite
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 428346
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (9)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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