USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Esmeralda County
Siskon Property
Unconfirmed Molybdenum Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Esmeralda
- Mining district
- Sylvania (Green Mountain) District
- Development status
- Prospect
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Molybdenum
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Poison Spring Property, Cucomungo Deposit, Alum Gulch Deposit, Tule Canyon Deposit, Sorenson and Roper Properties, Chessher Property, Alum Creek Deposit
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Fault Trending N50w Alteration: Silicification, Sericitization, Argillization Of Rocks Along Zone Of Weakness Commodity: Flakes and rosettes of molybdenite Deposit: Large area affected by alteration and mineralization, possibly several sq…
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Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- 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: Prospect
Operators / organizations
- Sorensons · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Clay
- Jarosite
- Quartz
- Sericite
- Ferrimolybdite
- Ilsemannite
- Molybdenite
- Pyrite
View all 19 reported minerals
- Clay
- Jarosite
- Quartz
- Sericite
- Ferrimolybdite
- Ilsemannite
- Molybdenite
- Pyrite
- commodity:Iron
- commodity:Molybdenum
- Ferrimolybdite
- Ilsemannite
- Jarosite
- Molybdenite
- Muscovite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Quartz-monzonite
- Sericite
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 429256
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (11)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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