Jessup Gold Prospect | UndergroundMines

Key facts

State: Nevada
County: Churchill
Mining district: Jessup District
Development status: Past Producer
Mine type: Mixed underground / surface
Primary commodity: Silver
Verification: Unconfirmed

Mine Location

Approximate Area

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Documented underground workings

Shaft — documented in 3 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Adit — documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features

Historical mapped workings

USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.

7 shaft symbols
1 adit symbol

Shaft : Desert Peak , 1951
Shaft : White Plains , 1986
Shaft : White Plains , 1986
Adit : White Plains , 1986

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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.
Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). 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.

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.

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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

Southwestern Gold Corporation · Historical operator · 1992

Commodities & minerals

Reported minerals

Quartz
Cerargyrite
Gold
Scheelite

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 (7)
mapped adit symbols (1)

Historical mapped features may no longer exist.

Dataset information

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