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Nevada · Humboldt County

Solid Silver Mine

Mindat Confirmed Silver Underground 2 mapped shafts 1 mapped adit

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Key facts

State
Nevada
County
Humboldt
Mining district
Paradise Valley
Development status
Past Producer
Mine type
Underground
Primary commodity
Silver
Verification
Mindat Confirmed

Mine Location

Approximate Area

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Documented underground workings

Mindat locality description

Deposit: Massive white vein quartz on mine and mill dumps; possible vein outcrop near upper shaft. N 30 e, vertical shear, 1 ft wide, with vuggy quartz, cutting phyllite wallrock. Vein quartz contains sulfides, and is brecciated. Sulfides form breccia …

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Additional documented workings

  • Shaft — documented in 3 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.

  • 2 shaft symbols
  • 1 adit symbol
  • Shaft : Mullinix Creek , 1991
  • Adit : Hinkey Summit , 1959
  • Shaft : Hinkey Summit , 1959
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Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.

  • 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
    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: Deposit: Massive white vein quartz on mine and mill dumps; possible vein outcrop near upper shaft. N 30 e, vertical shear, 1 ft wide,…
  • Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
  • MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Underground · oper_type

Verification

Mindat Confirmed

Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.

Why confirmed?

Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.

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Why it's listed

USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.

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History & operations

Historical record

  • Development status: Past Producer

Commodities & minerals

Reported minerals

  • commodity:Lead
  • commodity:Silver
  • commodity:Zinc
  • Galena
  • Phyllite
  • Pyrite
  • Quartz
  • Sphalerite

Access & recent conditions

Land
unknown

Community reports

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Sources & evidence

USGS Mineral Resources Data System

Type: Historical mine record

Supports:

  • mine identity
  • development status
  • commodities
  • underground eligibility evidence

USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features

Type: Historical mapped physical features

Dataset: DOI 10.5066/P9TAALR6

Supports:

  • mapped shaft symbols (2)
  • mapped adit symbols (1)

Historical mapped features may no longer exist.

Dataset information

Mindat

Type: Mineralogical locality database

Record: Mindat Locality: 430137

Supports:

  • locality identity
  • reported minerals (8)
  • underground workings

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