USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Mineral County
Silver Gulch
Unconfirmed Silver Underground
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Mineral
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Ne-Trending Faults Strong Folding, Tert And Quat Faulting Tectonics: Dunlap Formatrion Deposit: Barite stringers in chert conglomerate contain argentiferous tetrahedrite and galena Development: This area was explored in the 1860's ; econ…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 shaft symbol
- 12 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Underground · oper_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
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
- Andradite
- Baryte
- Brochantite
- Chert
- commodity:Antimony
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- Galena
View all 11 reported minerals
- Andradite
- Baryte
- Brochantite
- Chert
- commodity:Antimony
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- Galena
- Granite
- Linarite
- Tetrahedrite Subgroup
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 (1)
- mapped adit symbols (12)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 39897
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (11)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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