USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Nye County
Round Mountain Gold Mine
Unconfirmed Gold Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Nye
- Mining district
- Round Mountain District
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Sunnyside Mine, Sphinx Glory Hole, Great Western Tunnel, Rattlesnake, Keane Vein, Los Gazabo Vein
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.
- 59 shaft symbols
- 41 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=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: Producer
Operators / organizations
- Joint venture: Barrick Gold Corporation · Historical operator · 2005
- Joint venture: Kinross Gold Corporation · Historical operator · 2005
Commodities & minerals
- Gold · primary
- Silver
- Arsenic
- Antimony
- Thallium
- Mercury
- Molybdenum
- Fluorine-Fluorite
- Manganese
- Tungsten
Reported minerals
- Clay
- Adularia
- Alunite
- Electrum
- Fluorite
- Gold
- Hematite
- Illite
View all 17 reported minerals
- Clay
- Adularia
- Alunite
- Electrum
- Fluorite
- Gold
- Hematite
- Illite
- Jarosite
- Kaolinite
- Limonite
- Montmorillonite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Realgar
- Scorodite
- Sericite
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 (59)
- mapped adit symbols (41)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
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