USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Eureka County
Silver Conner Shaft
Mindat Confirmed Silver Underground
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Eureka
- Mining district
- Eureka District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Silver Conner Transverse Fault. Deposit: Irregular cavities or caves in carbonate, connected by seams and small fissures worked from 1877 go 1921 intermittantly. 5,937 tons of ore valued at $167,132 were produced. The property is located in…
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 1 source record.
Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 60 shaft symbols
- 54 adit symbols
View individual source records (3)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Shaft
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: Structure: Silver Conner Transverse Fault. Deposit: Irregular cavities or caves in carbonate, connected by seams and small fissures w…
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type
Verification
Mindat Confirmed
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why confirmed?
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
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
- Acanthite
- commodity:Arsenic
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- Dolostone
- Native Copper
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 (60)
- mapped adit symbols (54)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 60719
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (7)
- underground workings
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