USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Pershing County
Vernon Mine
Mindat Confirmed Tungsten Mixed Underground / Surface 1 mapped shaft 2 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Pershing
- Mining district
- Seven Troughs District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Tungsten
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Also known as
- Scheelite, Dead Strike, Sure Thing
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Deposit: Mine area is underlain by granodiorite cut by several thin quartz veins and pegmatite dikes. Scheelite occurs in small pods and ore shoots in the quartz veins that range from a few inches to about 5 feet in width. Developed by an adit 31 feet …
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 2 source records,
noting 31 ft.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features · Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 shaft symbol
- 2 adit symbols
- Adit : Seven Troughs , 1981
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
· length 31 ft
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: e shoots in the quartz veins that range from a few inches to about 5 feet in width. Developed by an adit 31 feet ...
- USGS MRDS working type: Surface/Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface/Underground · work_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
- Scheelite
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Molybdenum
- commodity:Tungsten
- commodity:Uranium
- Diorite
- Epidote
- Garnet Group
View all 18 reported minerals
- Scheelite
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Molybdenum
- commodity:Tungsten
- commodity:Uranium
- Diorite
- Epidote
- Garnet Group
- Granite
- Limonite
- Metasedimentary rock
- Microcline
- Molybdenite
- Muscovite
- Pegmatite
- Plagioclase
- Quartz
- Scheelite
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 (1)
- mapped adit symbols (2)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 58704
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (17)
- underground workings
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