USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Lincoln County
Atlanta Mine
Unconfirmed Gold Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Lincoln
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Atlanta Home, Atlanta N0s. 1-3, Pactolion Fraction, Belle, Atlanta Strip No. 1, Hillside, Sparrow Hawk
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 15 T7N R68E. Silver and gold open pit mine in silicified breccia. Structure: Basin-and-Range-style extension produced widely spaced normal faults that clearly cut all caldera-related structures and volcanic units, including the 28 Ma Ryan Spring F…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 shaft symbol
- 2 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- 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: Producer
Operators / organizations
- Standard Slag Co., Ernie Charter, Manager · Historical operator
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Alunite
- Chert
- Clay
- Jasper
- Limonite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Gold
View all 35 reported minerals
- Alunite
- Chert
- Clay
- Jasper
- Limonite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Gold
- Acanthite
- Alunite
- Andesite
- Baryte
- Carnotite
- Chert
- Clay
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Iron
- commodity:Manganese
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Uranium
- Hydroniumjarosite
- Jasper
- Limestone
- Limonite
- Native Gold
- Native Silver
- Natrojarosite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Quartzite
- Rhyodacite
- Rhyolite
- Spanoite
- Tuff
- Volcanic breccia
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 (2)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 57865
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (27)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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