USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Lander County
Little Giant Mine
Unconfirmed Silver Underground
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. Gold silver Structure: Thrust Faults Nw-Trending Faults Alteration: Strong Sericitic, Pyritic, Propylitic, Phyllic Alteration Of The Granite Porphyry, Increasing In Intesity Toward Veins. Deposit: First prospected in 1867. Producti…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 shaft symbol
- 14 adit symbols
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Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Underground · oper_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
- H. D. Ramsey And Assoc. · Historical operator · 1954
- Little Giant Gold And Silver Co. · Source-reported owner · 1936
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Acanthite
- Anglesite
- Argentite
- Arsenopyrite
- Azurite
- Boulangerite
- Cerussite
- Chalcocite
View all 28 reported minerals
- Acanthite
- Anglesite
- Argentite
- Arsenopyrite
- Azurite
- Boulangerite
- Cerussite
- Chalcocite
- commodity:Antimony
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Covellite
- Galena
- Granite
- Hornfels
- Jarosite
- Limonite
- Polybasite
- Pyrargyrite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Sandstone
- Shale
- Sphalerite
- Tetrahedrite
- Tetrahedrite Subgroup
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 (1)
- mapped adit symbols (14)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 60254
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (26)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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