USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Storey County
Occidental Mine
Mindat Confirmed Gold Underground
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Storey
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Also known as
- Monte Cristo Lode, Occidental, Brunswick Lode
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Regional Dip To West And Northwest Deposit: In the 1860's a 900-ft tunnel was driven int he occidental claim. A fairly large tonnage of ore was stoped from above this tunnel and from winzes. In 1870 a tunnel 400 feet lower encountered ore, …
Additional documented workings
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Tunnel
— documented in 1 source record,
noting 900 ft, 1860 ft, 400 ft.
Mindat -
Winze
— documented in 1 source record,
noting 400 ft, 1860 ft.
Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 16 shaft symbols
- 3 adit symbols
View individual source records (4)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Tunnel
· length 900 ft
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: Structure: Regional Dip To West And Northwest Deposit: In the 1860's a 900-ft tunnel was driven int he occidental claim. A fairly lar… -
Winze
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: n int he occidental claim. A fairly large tonnage of ore was stoped from above this tunnel and from winzes. In 1870 a tunnel 400 feet…
- 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
- Adularia
- Alunite
- Andesite
- Calcite
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- K Feldspar
- Native Gold
View all 10 reported minerals
- Adularia
- Alunite
- Andesite
- Calcite
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- K Feldspar
- Native Gold
- Native Silver
- Quartz
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 (16)
- mapped adit symbols (3)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 43415
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (10)
- underground workings
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