USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Churchill County
Summit King Mine
Unconfirmed Silver Underground
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Churchill
- Mining district
- Sand Springs
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Alteration: Strong gossan-like oxidation Commodity: Ore materials: gold, cerargyrite, argentite gangue materials: quartz, sericite, pyrite, calcite, iron oxides Deposit: The mine area consists of a system of E-W veins in a shear zone that crosses the…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 17 shaft symbols
- 1 adit symbol
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Underground · oper_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- Wacker, William And Violet · Source-reported owner · 1990
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Acanthite
- Adularia
- Andesite
- Calcite
- Chlorargyrite
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- K Feldspar
View all 17 reported minerals
- Acanthite
- Adularia
- Andesite
- Calcite
- Chlorargyrite
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- K Feldspar
- Metamorphic rock
- Metavolcanic rock
- Muscovite
- Native Gold
- Polybasite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Rhyolite
- Sericite
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 (1)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 60974
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (17)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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