USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Elko County
Tripoli Mine
Mindat Confirmed Silver Underground
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Elko
- Mining district
- Railroad
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
part of the Alladin Group Alteration: Silication, Sericitization, Silicification Deposit: Chimneys of high-grade silver-lead ore at fissure intersections, shear zone the tripoli mine consists of 2 patented claims, and was developed by a 100' adit w…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 1 source record,
noting 100 ft.
Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 3 shaft symbols
- 14 adit symbols
View individual source records (3)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Adit
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: tersections, shear zone the tripoli mine consists of 2 patented claims, and was developed by a 100' adit w...
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Underground · oper_type
Verification
Mindat Confirmed
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why confirmed?
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Azurite
- Calcite
- Cerussite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chrysocolla
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
View all 23 reported minerals
- Azurite
- Calcite
- Cerussite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chrysocolla
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- Diorite
- Galena
- Garnet Group
- Hemimorphite
- Limestone
- Limonite
- Malachite
- Native Copper
- Native Lead
- Pyrite
- Pyromorphite
- Scheelite
- Sphalerite
- Tenorite
- Tremolite
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 (3)
- mapped adit symbols (14)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 41517
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (23)
- underground workings
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