USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Eureka County
Steel Galena
Mindat Confirmed Lead Underground 1 mapped shaft
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Eureka
- Mining district
- Diamond District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Lead
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Shear Zone Deposit: Property is developed by an 100' shaft.; info.src : 1 pub lit Geology: Ore is in shear zones in shale. Rock formation(s): Pilot Shale Ore(s): Shear Zone
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 2 source records,
noting 100 ft shaft.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features · Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 shaft symbol
- Shaft : Christina Peak , 1990
View individual source records (4)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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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: Structure: Shear Zone Deposit: Property is developed by an 100' shaft.; info.src : 1 pub lit Geology: Ore is in shear zones in shale.…
- 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
- Galena
- Gold
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- Galena
- Native Gold
View all 9 reported minerals
- Galena
- Gold
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- Galena
- Native Gold
- Shale
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)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 60603
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (7)
- underground workings
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