USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Nye County
Manhattan Gold Mine
Unconfirmed Silver Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Nye
- Mining district
- Manhattan District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: A series of thrust sheets that generally dip to the south have affected rocks in the mine area. The Manhattan gold deposit occurs within a NW-trending, NW-plunging faulted antiform. Reilly Fault (ENE), Jumping Jack Fault (NE), Twin Faults (E…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 57 shaft symbols
- 31 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- 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.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- Round Mountain Gold Corporation · Historical operator · 2004
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Calcite
- Adularia
- Arsenopyrite
- Barite
- Clay
- Fluorite
- Gold
- Pyrite
View all 33 reported minerals
- Calcite
- Adularia
- Arsenopyrite
- Barite
- Clay
- Fluorite
- Gold
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Realgar
- Silver
- Stibnite
- Adularia
- Arsenopyrite
- Baryte
- Calcite
- Clay
- commodity:Antimony
- commodity:Arsenic
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- Fluorite
- K Feldspar
- Limestone
- Native Gold
- Native Silver
- Phyllite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Quartzite
- Realgar
- Schist
- 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 shaft symbols (57)
- mapped adit symbols (31)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 436158
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (21)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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