USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Nye County
Summit Creek Mine
Unconfirmed Barium-Barite Mixed Underground / Surface 1 mapped adit
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Nye
- Mining district
- Twin River
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Barium-Barite
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Betty Millsite, Linda Millsite, Bart Claims, Summit Canyon Mine, Rex Claims Group, Summit Claims
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
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.
- 1 adit symbol
- Adit : South Toiyabe Peak , 1979
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.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Surface-Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past 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: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- Barium Products And Mining Co. · Source-reported owner · 1990
- Republic Resources Inc. · Historical operator · 1981
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- commodity:Bismuth
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
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 (1)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 436584
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (5)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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