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Nevada · Esmeralda County

Tip Top Mine

Unconfirmed Gold Underground 1 mapped shaft 5 mapped adits

Key facts

State
Nevada
County
Esmeralda
Mining district
Fish Lake Valley District
Development status
Past Producer
Mine type
Underground
Primary commodity
Gold
Verification
Unconfirmed

Also known as

  • Gold Hit Mine, Patent Survey #2618, Red Top Claims 1-4

Mine Location

Approximate Area

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Documented underground workings

Mindat locality description

In part in Esmeralda Co. Gold and silver Tectonics: Basin And Range Deposit: Two veins near contact of andesite with thyolite (both tertiary and presumably post-esmeralda) were mined for gold and silver. Ore(s): Contact Between Andesite And Rhyolite

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Additional documented workings

  • Adit — documented in 2 source records.
    USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
  • Shaft — documented in 1 source record.
    USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features

Historical mapped workings

USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.

  • 1 shaft symbol
  • 5 adit symbols
  • Adit : Mt. Montgomery , 1987
  • Adit : Mt. Montgomery , 1987
  • Shaft : Mt. Montgomery , 1987
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Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.

  • Adit
    Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
  • 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.
  • USGS MRDS working type: Underground
  • MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type

Verification

Unconfirmed

Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.

Why it's listed

USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.

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History & operations

Historical record

  • Development status: Past Producer

Operators / organizations

  • Louisiana Consolidated Mining Co., N. Y. C. ; Cor Dex Co., · Source-reported owner

Commodities & minerals

Reported minerals

  • Chlorite
  • Quartz
  • Iron
  • Andesite
  • Chlorite Group
  • commodity:Gold
  • commodity:Mercury
  • commodity:Silver
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  • Chlorite
  • Quartz
  • Iron
  • Andesite
  • Chlorite Group
  • commodity:Gold
  • commodity:Mercury
  • commodity:Silver
  • Jarosite
  • Pyrite
  • Quartz
  • Quartz-latite
  • Rhyolite

Access & recent conditions

Land
unknown

Community reports

No community field reports yet.

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Sources & evidence

USGS Mineral Resources Data System

Type: Historical mine record

Supports:

  • mine identity
  • development status
  • commodities
  • underground eligibility evidence

USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features

Type: Historical mapped physical features

Dataset: DOI 10.5066/P9TAALR6

Supports:

  • mapped shaft symbols (1)
  • mapped adit symbols (5)

Historical mapped features may no longer exist.

Dataset information

Mindat

Type: Mineralogical locality database

Record: Mindat Locality: 39389

Supports:

  • locality identity
  • reported minerals (10)

A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.

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