USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Storey County
Gooseberry Mine
Source Corroborated Gold Mixed Underground / Surface 2 mapped shafts
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Storey
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Also known as
- Curtiss-Wright Property (in part), 21 unpatented Red Top claims
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former Cu-Au-Sb mine located 5 miles south of Clark Siding. Structure: Regional structures affecting area rocks are the Talapoosa lineament, a major E-W- trending structural zone and the NW-trending Bear Creek structural zone. Numerous faults an…
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 2 shaft symbols
- Shaft : Martin Canyon , 1985
- Shaft : Churchill Butte , 1957
View individual source records (5)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). 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: Surface/Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface/Underground · work_type
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Producer): Surface-Underground · oper_type
Verification
Source Corroborated
Additional historical source evidence corroborates this record. This is not a member field verification of current conditions.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Producer
Operators / organizations
- Ican Resources Ltd. · Source-reported owner · 1984
- Asamera Minerals (U. S.), Inc. · Historical operator
- Pallas Resources · Historical operator
- Scurry-Rainboe Inc. (Sub Westcoast Oil And Gas Corp.) · Historical operator · 1984
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Adularia
- Calcite
- Dolomite
- Gypsum
- Jarosite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Argentite
View all 40 reported minerals
- Adularia
- Calcite
- Dolomite
- Gypsum
- Jarosite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Argentite
- Chalcopyrite
- Electrum
- Galena
- Gold
- Polybasite
- Silver
- Sphalerite
- Stephanite
- Tetrahedrite
- Acanthite
- Adularia
- Agglomerate
- Calcite
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Dacite
- Dolomite
- Electrum
- Galena
- Gypsum
- Jarosite
- K Feldspar
- Native Gold
- Native Silver
- Polybasite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Rhyodacite
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 (2)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 43390
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (23)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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