USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Nye County
Paradise Peak Mine
Unconfirmed Gold Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Nye
- Mining district
- Fairplay District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Finger Rock Prospect, County Line, Ketchup Flat, Paradise Peak
- Sullivan Mine, Granny GooseParadise, FMC Deposit, NBMG Sample Sites 1472, 1473, Goose Claims, Gabbs Mine, Nody Prospect
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Source classification: Underground operation documented
Specific physical workings are not yet documented in discrete records.
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 shaft symbol
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
- Arimetco International, Inc. · Historical operator · 1997
Commodities & minerals
- Gold · primary
- Silver
- Mercury
- Barium-Barite
- Bismuth
- Lead
- Thallium
- Iron
- Antimony
- Titanium
- Tin
- Molybdenum
Reported minerals
- Quartz
- Acanthite
- Alunite
- Barite
- Calomel
- Cerargyrite
- Chalcedony
- Chalcopyrite
View all 34 reported minerals
- Quartz
- Acanthite
- Alunite
- Barite
- Calomel
- Cerargyrite
- Chalcedony
- Chalcopyrite
- Cinnabar
- Corderoite
- Embolite
- Galena
- Gold
- Hematite
- Illite
- Iodyrite
- Jarosite
- Kaolinite
- Leucoxene
- Limonite
- Marcasite
- Metacinnabar
- Montroydite
- Opal
- Orpiment
- Plumbojarosite
- Pyrite
- Pyrrhotite
- Realgar
- Silver
- Sphalerite
- Stibnite
- Sulfur
- Tetrahedrite
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)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
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