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Nevada · Esmeralda County

Golden Rule Mine

Unconfirmed Silver Mixed Underground / Surface 1 mapped shaft 1 mapped adit

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Key facts

State
Nevada
County
Esmeralda
Mining district
Hornsilver (Gold Point, Lime Point) District
Development status
Past Producer
Mine type
Mixed underground / surface
Primary commodity
Silver
Verification
Unconfirmed

Also known as

  • Little Joe

Mine Location

Approximate Area

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Documented underground workings

Mindat locality description

Deposit: Vein is on a contact between granite and quartzite with granite footwall. At another point is a reddish-black massive, quartz-iron outcrop Ore(s): Contact Of Granite With Quartzite.

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Additional documented workings

  • Adit — documented in 1 source record.
    USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
  • Shaft — documented in 1 source record.
    USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features

Historical mapped workings

USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.

  • 1 shaft symbol
  • 1 adit symbol
  • Shaft : Gold Point , 1968
  • Adit : Gold Point , 1968
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Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.

  • Adit
    Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
  • Shaft
    Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). 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.

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Why it's listed

Source records document both underground and surface mining.

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History & operations

Historical record

  • Development status: Past Producer

Operators / organizations

  • John T. Murphy And Fred Atzert Of Goldfield · Source-reported owner

Commodities & minerals

Reported minerals

  • Quartz
  • commodity:Gold
  • commodity:Silver
  • Granite
  • Quartz
  • Quartzite

Access & recent conditions

Land
unknown

Community reports

No community field reports yet.

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Sources & evidence

USGS Mineral Resources Data System

Type: Historical mine record

Supports:

  • mine identity
  • development status
  • commodities
  • underground eligibility evidence

USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features

Type: Historical mapped physical features

Dataset: DOI 10.5066/P9TAALR6

Supports:

  • mapped shaft symbols (1)
  • mapped adit symbols (1)

Historical mapped features may no longer exist.

Dataset information

Mindat

Type: Mineralogical locality database

Record: Mindat Locality: 428828

Supports:

  • locality identity
  • reported minerals (5)

A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.

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