USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Washoe County
Green Hill Mines
Unconfirmed Gold Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Washoe
- Mining district
- Olinghouse (White Horse) District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Gold Center Mine, Butte Mine, Renegade Mine, Don Dero Mine
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A summit located N of Olinghouse (town). Structure: Olinghouse Fault Zone Alteration: Propylitization Deposit type: Epithermal vein, Comstock Ore(s): Fractures Related To Olinghouse Fault
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 12 shaft symbols
- 40 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- 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
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
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Andesite
- Azurite
- Bornite
- Calcite
- Chalcopyrite
- Clinozoisite
- Coloradoite
- commodity:Copper
View all 20 reported minerals
- Andesite
- Azurite
- Bornite
- Calcite
- Chalcopyrite
- Clinozoisite
- Coloradoite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- Diorite
- Galena
- Goethite
- Hessite
- Native Gold
- Petzite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Scheelite
- Wad
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 (12)
- mapped adit symbols (40)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 43201
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (20)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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