USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Pershing County
Stormy Day Mine
Unconfirmed Tungsten Mixed Underground / Surface 4 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Pershing
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Tungsten
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Old Thrasher, Milky Way, NBMG Sample Site 2921, NBMG Sample Site 2922
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Alteration: Silicification Commodity: Lamping of ore showed it to be of very good grade. Averaged 0.66% wo3. Deposit: This record has been merged with m234143 As well As m060203, m030092 and d001180 which have been deleted. Tactite bodies occur along…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 4 adit symbols
- Adit : Kumiva Peak , 1990
View individual source records (3)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- USGS MRDS working type: Surface/Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface/Underground · work_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: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Epidote
- Garnet
- Pyrite
- Pyroxene
- Pyrrhotite
- Quartz
- Chalcopyrite
- Molybdenite
View all 29 reported minerals
- Epidote
- Garnet
- Pyrite
- Pyroxene
- Pyrrhotite
- Quartz
- Chalcopyrite
- Molybdenite
- Powellite
- Scheelite
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Molybdenum
- commodity:Tungsten
- Diorite
- Dolostone
- Epidote
- Garnet Group
- Hornfels
- Limestone
- Molybdenite
- Powellite
- Pyrite
- Pyroxene Group
- Pyrrhotite
- Quartz
- Scheelite
- Schist
- Skarn
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 adit symbols (4)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 58212
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (19)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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