USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Nye County
Sterling Mine
Unconfirmed Gold Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Nye
- Mining district
- Bare Mountain District
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Source classification: Underground operation documented
Specific physical workings are not yet documented in discrete records.
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 17 shaft symbols
- 8 adit symbols
View individual source records (3)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- USGS MRDS working type: Surface/Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface/Underground · work_type
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Producer): Surface-Underground · oper_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Producer
Operators / organizations
- Dejour in part. Cathedral Gold Corp. 52% Owned . · Source-reported owner
- Geomex Devrlopment, Inc. · Source-reported owner · 1984
- Imperial Metals Corp. (Owns 56.2% of Cathedral) · Source-reported owner · 1996
- Panama Nev. Mines Co. · Source-reported owner
- Cathedral Gold Corp. · Historical operator · 1996
- Imperial Metals Corporation · Historical operator · 2002
- Saga Exploration Co. 2.5% Nsr · Historical operator · 1996
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Alunite
- Calcite
- Clay
- Fluorite
- Jarosite
- Limonite
- Quartz
- Sericite
View all 9 reported minerals
- Alunite
- Calcite
- Clay
- Fluorite
- Jarosite
- Limonite
- Quartz
- Sericite
- Gold
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 (17)
- mapped adit symbols (8)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
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