USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Esmeralda County
January Mine
Unconfirmed Gold Underground
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Esmeralda
- Mining district
- Goldfield District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Part of Goldfield Consolidated Mines Co. After 1906, January and February Claims
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Brecciation, Alteration: Alunitization, Silicification, Pyritization Deposit: Payshoot is curved. Smaller irregular shoots are erratically distributed throughout the ledge. Richest ore found in oxidized zone in silicified areas; little ore…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 116 shaft symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- 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
- Davis-Goldfield Mining Corp. · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Alunite
- Kaolinite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Alunite
- Alunogen
- Bismite
- Bismoclite
View all 29 reported minerals
- Alunite
- Kaolinite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Alunite
- Alunogen
- Bismite
- Bismoclite
- Bismuthinite
- commodity:Antimony
- commodity:Arsenic
- commodity:Bismuth
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- Coquimbite
- Dacite
- Famatinite
- Halotrichite
- Iodargyrite
- Kaolinite
- Latite
- Limonite
- Melanterite
- Native Gold
- Natroalunite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Rozenite
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 (116)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 62290
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (25)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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