USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Esmeralda County
Crystal White Prospect
Unconfirmed Talc-Soapstone Mixed Underground / Surface 2 mapped shafts 4 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Esmeralda
- Mining district
- Palmetto District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Talc-Soapstone
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Commodity: Most ore is shattered with a splintery fracture Deposit: Principal talc vein exposed in 45 by 8 ft open cut. It has a limestone hanging wall and a quartzide footwall, conforming in part to bedding of underlying quartzite. Vein is offset by …
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.
- 2 shaft symbols
- 4 adit symbols
- Adit : Sylvania Mts. , 1987
- Adit : Magruder Mtn. , 1957
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.
- USGS MRDS working type: Surface/Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface/Underground · work_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- M. D. Mac Boyle, W. E. Mac Boyle, John Dean · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Calcite
- Quartz
- Talc
- Calcite
- Chlorite Group
- commodity:Talc
- Limestone
- Quartz
View all 10 reported minerals
- Calcite
- Quartz
- Talc
- Calcite
- Chlorite Group
- commodity:Talc
- Limestone
- Quartz
- Quartzite
- Talc
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 (2)
- mapped adit symbols (4)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 63380
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (7)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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