The Rex Mine is a silver and gold mine located in Elko county, Nevada at an elevation of 6,562 feet.
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All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.
Mine Info
Elevation: 6,562 Feet (2,000 Meters)
Commodity: Silver, Gold
Lat, Long: 41.2469, -116.78310
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Rex Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Rex Mine
Secondary: Ken Snyder Mine
Secondary: Rex-Grande
Secondary: Midas Jv Project
Commodity
Primary: Silver
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Nevada
County: Elko
District: Gold Circle District
Land Status
Land ownership: Private
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
Type: Other
Type: Located Claim
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Underground
Mining Method: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1900
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Great Basin
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Not available
Comments
Comment (Deposit): MINE IS POSSIBLY LOCATED ON THE KEN SNYDER/REX-GRANDE/MIDAS JV PROPERTY OF EURO-NEVADA & FRANCO-NEVADA MINING CORPS. LTD. MAS SEQ #0320070203
References
Reference (Deposit): NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES, BULL 12, 1931, P19, PL1.
Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL. 408, 1910, P54.
Reference (Deposit): NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES, BULL 54, 1957, P70.
Nevada Gold
Nevada has a total of 368 distinct gold districts. Of the of those, just 36 are major producers with production and/or reserves of over 1,000,000 ounces, 49 have production and/or reserves of over 100,000 ounces, with the rest having less than 100,000 ounces. Read more: Gold Districts of Nevada.
