USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Churchill County
Tungsten Mountain Mine
Mindat Confirmed Tungsten Mixed Underground / Surface 3 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Churchill
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Tungsten
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Also known as
- Hilltop Mine
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Tactite Alteration: Silication Deposit: Scheelite in tactite at contact of granodiorite with siltstone, limestone and quartzite. Early history is not well known. Deposit type: W skarn Development: Listed As an active underground mine and mill in 198…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 3 adit symbols
- Adit : Tungsten Mtn. , 1990
- Adit : Tungsten Mtn. , 1990
View individual source records (4)
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. -
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
Mindat Confirmed
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why confirmed?
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Arsenopyrite
- Diorite
- Garnet Group
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Quartzite
- Scheelite
- Vesuvianite
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 (3)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 60911
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (8)
- underground workings
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