USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Nye County
NBMG Sample Site 2756
Unconfirmed Gold Mixed Underground / Surface 7 mapped shafts 1 mapped adit
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Nye
- Development status
- Occurrence
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Fault, Shear Alteration: Altered, Silicified Rhyolite; Bleached Shear Zone Deposit: Vein explored by a 50-ft incline following the dip slope. Fault-controlled vein is about 4 ft thick at the surface and it has altered, silicified rhyolite …
Additional documented workings
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Incline
— documented in 1 source record,
noting 50 ft.
Mindat -
Shaft
— 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 : Yellow Cone , 1986
View individual source records (4)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Incline
· length 50 ft
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: r Alteration: Altered, Silicified Rhyolite; Bleached Shear Zone Deposit: Vein explored by a 50-ft incline following the dip slope. Fa… -
Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- USGS MRDS working type: Surface/Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface/Underground · work_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: Occurrence
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Andesite
- commodity:Antimony
- commodity:Bismuth
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
View all 15 reported minerals
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Andesite
- commodity:Antimony
- commodity:Bismuth
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Molybdenum
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Rhyolite
- Wad
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 (7)
- mapped adit symbols (1)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 436269
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (13)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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