USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Elko County
Resurrection Mine
Unconfirmed Silver Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Elko
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
wDeposit: Discovery year: 1870's near-surface pockets in shearzone-veins in sheeted quartz monzonite. In the 1870's rich Ag chloride ore was taken from the mine(emmons p. 83). This ore was in near surface pockets. Tunnels, pit, and shallow inclines, in…
Additional documented workings
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Incline
— documented in 1 source record,
noting 1870 ft.
Mindat -
Tunnel
— documented in 1 source record,
noting 1870 ft.
Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 adit symbol
View individual source records (4)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Incline
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: taken from the mine(emmons p. 83). This ore was in near surface pockets. Tunnels, pit, and shallow inclines, in... Historical context… -
Tunnel
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: s rich Ag chloride ore was taken from the mine(emmons p. 83). This ore was in near surface pockets. Tunnels, pit, and shallow incline…
- 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
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Cerussite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chlorargyrite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- Galena
View all 12 reported minerals
- Cerussite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chlorargyrite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- Galena
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Quartz-monzonite
- Tetrahedrite Subgroup
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 adit symbols (1)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 41466
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (12)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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