USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Lander County
Irish Rose Mine
Unconfirmed Silver Underground 9 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Lander
- Mining district
- Battle Mountain District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 36 T32N R43E. Silver. Structure: Dewitt Thrust Fault N-Trending Faults Deposit: Discovery year: late 1800's these 12 claims were worked sporadically for many years in the early days of the camp, with no record of production. From 1922 to 1924 it …
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 9 adit symbols
- Adit : Galena Canyon , 1984
View individual source records (3)
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.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- Toulon Arsenic Co., · Historical operator
- Toulon Arsenic, Co., · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Calcite
- Quartz
- Chalcopyrite
- Galena
- Pyrite
- Stibnite
- Arsenopyrite
- Calcite
View all 23 reported minerals
- Calcite
- Quartz
- Chalcopyrite
- Galena
- Pyrite
- Stibnite
- Arsenopyrite
- Calcite
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Antimony
- commodity:Arsenic
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Iron
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- Galena
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Quartz-monzonite
- Quartzite
- Sphalerite
- Stibnite
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 (9)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 60112
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (17)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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