USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Nye County
Silvershield Property
Unconfirmed Silver Underground
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Nye
- Mining district
- Jefferson Canyon District
- Development status
- Occurrence
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- May Be Same As Unnamed Prospects #5
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Alteration: Strong Alteration Of Rhyolite To "Talc" + Quartz Deposit: Ores is in bunches and stringers. May Be Same As Unnamed Prospects #5
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Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_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: Occurrence
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Quartz
- Talc
- Cerargyrite
- Pyrargyrite
- Chlorargyrite
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- Pyrargyrite
View all 11 reported minerals
- Quartz
- Talc
- Cerargyrite
- Pyrargyrite
- Chlorargyrite
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- Pyrargyrite
- Quartz
- Rhyolite
- Talc
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: 436545
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (7)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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