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Nevada · Douglas County

Longfellow Mine

Source Corroborated Gold Underground 1 mapped shaft 1 mapped adit

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Key facts

State
Nevada
County
Douglas
Development status
Past Producer
Mine type
Underground
Primary commodity
Gold
Verification
Source Corroborated

Also known as

  • Longfellow

Mine Location

Approximate Area

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Documented underground workings

Mindat locality description

Deposit: The first ore mined from the pine nut mtns. Came from this property in 1862 and was milled at virginia city ; info.src : 1 pub lit

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Additional documented workings

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

Historical mapped workings

USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.

  • 1 shaft symbol
  • 1 adit symbol
  • Adit : Mt. Siegel , 1957
  • Shaft : Mt. Siegel , 1957
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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.
  • Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
  • MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Underground · oper_type

Verification

Source Corroborated

Additional historical source evidence corroborates this record. This is not a member field verification of current conditions.

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Why it's listed

USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.

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History & operations

Historical record

  • Development status: Past Producer

Commodities & minerals

Reported minerals

  • Cerussite
  • Chalcopyrite
  • commodity:Copper
  • commodity:Gold
  • commodity:Iron
  • commodity:Lead
  • commodity:Silver
  • Galena
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  • Cerussite
  • Chalcopyrite
  • commodity:Copper
  • commodity:Gold
  • commodity:Iron
  • commodity:Lead
  • commodity:Silver
  • Galena
  • Hematite
  • Monzonite
  • Native Gold
  • Pyrite
  • Quartz

Access & recent conditions

Land
unknown

Community reports

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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 (1)
  • mapped adit symbols (1)

Historical mapped features may no longer exist.

Dataset information

Mindat

Type: Mineralogical locality database

Record: Mindat Locality: 61087

Supports:

  • locality identity
  • reported minerals (13)

A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.

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