USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Esmeralda County
Eclipse Group
Unconfirmed Mercury Underground
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Esmeralda
- Mining district
- Cuprite District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Mercury
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Ralston Quicksilver Prospect
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Alteration: Alteration Of Igneous Lavas By Hot Spring And Gas Action Deposit: Snowy mass of pulvurent silica and alunite containing skeletal bodies of chert which hold it together. In some of the joints and fissures cinnabar was deposited, also sulphu…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 3 shaft symbols
- 7 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- Joseph Fuetch, Wm. Beyer, George F. Smith, Edwin Reimann, All Of Goldfield · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Cinnabar
- Sulfur
- Alunite
- Cinnabar
- commodity:Mercury
- commodity:Silica
- commodity:Sulfur
- Native Sulphur
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 (7)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 428758
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (6)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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