USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Pershing County
Windy Hill Mine
Source Corroborated Tungsten Mixed Underground / Surface 2 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Pershing
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Tungsten
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Deposit: Workings follow E- W and NE shears with felsic dikes and quartz veins in a dark gray granodiorite. Also nearby is a thin veneer of older sediments. One of the E- W adits was driven using motorized equipment, but all of the other workings look …
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 3 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features · Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 2 adit symbols
- Adit : Dead Horse Canyon , 1981
- Adit : Dead Horse Canyon , 1981
View individual source records (5)
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. -
Adit
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: veins in a dark gray granodiorite. Also nearby is a thin veneer of older sediments. One of the E- W adits was driven using motorized…
- 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
Source Corroborated
Additional historical source evidence corroborates this record. This is not a member field verification of current conditions.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- Diorite
- Quartz
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 (2)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 438331
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (4)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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