USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Esmeralda County
Northern Alpine Prospect
Mindat Confirmed Silver Underground
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Esmeralda
- Mining district
- Lone Mountain District
- Development status
- Occurrence
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Fault Deposit: Property is on trend with the shear that introduced mineralization at the alpine mine. Adit goes in on a 2ft thick quartz lens containing 5% galena Rock formation(s): Reed Dolomite Ore(s): Shear Zone, Stratigraphic Positio…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 1 source record,
noting 2 ft.
Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 3 shaft symbols
- 17 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
· length 2 ft
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: lt Deposit: Property is on trend with the shear that introduced mineralization at the alpine mine. Adit goes in on a 2ft thick quartz…
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_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: Occurrence
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Calcite
- Chlorite
- Hematite
- Pyrite
- Pyrolusite
- Quartz
- Talc
- Tremolite
View all 26 reported minerals
- Calcite
- Chlorite
- Hematite
- Pyrite
- Pyrolusite
- Quartz
- Talc
- Tremolite
- Anglesite
- Galena
- Anglesite
- Calcite
- Chlorite Group
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- Dolostone
- Galena
- Hematite
- Lamprophyre
- Pyrite
- Pyrolusite
- Quartz
- Quartz-monzonite
- Talc
- 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 (17)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 429124
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (16)
- underground workings
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