USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Humboldt County
Silver Coin Group
Mindat Confirmed Silver Mixed Underground / Surface 4 mapped shafts 1 mapped adit
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Humboldt
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Also known as
- Kramer Propertynbmg Sample Site 2307
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
The Silver coin group was originally a group of five unpatented claims and the main workings comsisted of the Silver Coin shaft. Geology A Pb-Zn-Ag deposit in thin bedded quartzite, argillite, and phosphatic-argillite of late Paleozoic age. Veins…
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features · Mindat -
Adit
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 4 shaft symbols
- 1 adit symbol
- Shaft : Iron Point , 1965
- Adit : Iron Point , 1965
View individual source records (5)
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. -
Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Shaft
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: was originally a group of five unpatented claims and the main workings comsisted of the Silver Coin shaft. Geology A Pb-Zn-Ag deposit…
- USGS MRDS working type: Surface/Underground
- 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: Producer
Operators / organizations
- N. G. Tintle And Steven J. Tintle, Lessees, P. O. Box 133, Golconda, Nv 89414 · Historical operator
- Silver Coin Mining Co · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Gypsum
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Argentite
- Cerargyrite
- Galena
- Tetrahedrite
- Adamite
View all 40 reported minerals
- Gypsum
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Argentite
- Cerargyrite
- Galena
- Tetrahedrite
- Adamite
- Agardite
- Alunite
- Anglesite
- Ankerite
- Apatite
- Apophyllite Group
- Aragonite
- Arsendescloizite
- Arsentsumebite
- Atacamite
- Aurichalcite
- Austinite
- Azurite
- Baryte
- Bayldonite
- Beraunite
- Beudantite
- Bindheimite
- Brochantite
- Bromine-bearing Chlorargyrite
- Calcite
- Calderónite
- Caledonite
- Carbonate-rich Fluorapatite
- Carminite
- Čechite
- Cerussite
- Chalcosiderite
- Chlorargyrite
- Chrysocolla
- Cinnabar
- Conichalcite
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 (4)
- mapped adit symbols (1)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 6744
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (33)
- underground workings
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