USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Clark County
Nippeno Mine
Source Corroborated Gold Underground 5 mapped shafts 1 mapped adit
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Clark
- Mining district
- Crescent
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 25 & 27 T28S R61E. gold silver lead copper. Ore was oxidized. Structure: Normal Faulting Geology: Ore is in 3 narrow veins a few inches to 2 feet thick, averaging 10 inches.
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 2 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.
- 5 shaft symbols
- 1 adit symbol
- Shaft : Crescent Peak , 1984
- Shaft : Crescent Peak , 1956
- Adit : Crescent Peak , 1984
View individual source records (5)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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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.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type
Verification
Source Corroborated
Additional historical source evidence corroborates this record. This is not a member field verification of current conditions.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- J. W. Wilson, Harry Trehearne ( 1937 ) · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Barite
- Chalcopyrite
- Galena
- Baryte
- Beaverite-(Cu)
- Calcite
- Cerussite
- Chalcopyrite
View all 23 reported minerals
- Barite
- Chalcopyrite
- Galena
- Baryte
- Beaverite-(Cu)
- Calcite
- Cerussite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chrysocolla
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- Galena
- Goethite
- Granite
- Hemimorphite
- Malachite
- Native Gold
- Quartz
- Sphalerite
- Vanadinite
- Wulfenite
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 (5)
- mapped adit symbols (1)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 61331
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (20)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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