USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Esmeralda County
Tip Top Mine
Unconfirmed Silver Mixed Underground / Surface 1 mapped shaft 4 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Esmeralda
- Mining district
- Buena Vista District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented 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
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— 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
- 4 adit symbols
- Adit : Benton , 1962
View individual source records (3)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- 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: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Andesite
- Chlorite Group
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Mercury
- commodity:Silver
- Jarosite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
View all 10 reported minerals
- 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.
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)
- mapped adit symbols (4)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
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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