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Nevada · White Pine County

Drummer Shaft

Mindat Confirmed Gold Underground 7 mapped shafts 2 mapped adits

Key facts

State
Nevada
County
White Pine
Mining district
Osceola
Development status
Past Producer
Mine type
Underground
Primary commodity
Gold
Verification
Mindat Confirmed

Mine Location

Approximate Area

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Documented underground workings

Mindat locality description

Geology: Vein is 4 ft wide, formed of fine grained granite porphyry and quartz

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Additional documented workings

  • Shaft — documented in 2 source records.
    USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features · Mindat

Historical mapped workings

USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.

  • 7 shaft symbols
  • 2 adit symbols
  • Shaft : Sacramento Pass , 1959
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Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.

  • Shaft
    Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
  • Shaft
    Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: Geology: Vein is 4 ft wide, formed of fine grained granite porphyry and 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.

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History & operations

Historical record

  • Development status: Past Producer

Commodities & minerals

Reported minerals

  • commodity:Gold
  • Granite
  • Quartz

Access & recent conditions

Land
unknown

Community reports

No community field reports yet.

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Sources & evidence

USGS Mineral Resources Data System

Type: Historical mine record

Supports:

  • mine identity
  • development status
  • commodities
  • underground eligibility evidence

USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features

Type: Historical mapped physical features

Dataset: DOI 10.5066/P9TAALR6

Supports:

  • mapped shaft symbols (7)
  • mapped adit symbols (2)

Historical mapped features may no longer exist.

Dataset information

Mindat

Type: Mineralogical locality database

Record: Mindat Locality: 438688

Supports:

  • locality identity
  • reported minerals (3)
  • underground workings

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