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Nevada · Nye County

Fairday Mine

Unconfirmed Silver Mixed Underground / Surface 2 mapped shafts 3 mapped adits

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Key facts

State
Nevada
County
Nye
Development status
Occurrence
Mine type
Mixed underground / surface
Primary commodity
Silver
Verification
Unconfirmed

Also known as

  • Fairday Nos. 1, 7 and Wanetta No. 4 Claims

Mine Location

Approximate Area

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Documented underground workings

Mindat locality description

Structure: Veins Are Cut By Faults Deposit: Several veins. Main vein has 2 branches Ore(s): Veins Appear To Parallel Contact Between Rhyolite And Diorite Porphyry.

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Additional documented workings

  • Adit — documented in 1 source record.
    USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
  • Shaft — documented in 1 source record.
    USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features

Historical mapped workings

USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.

  • 2 shaft symbols
  • 3 adit symbols
  • Shaft : Cactus Spring , 1952
  • Adit : Cactus Spring , 1952
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Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.

  • Adit
    Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
  • Shaft
    Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
  • 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.

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Why it's listed

Source records document both underground and surface mining.

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History & operations

Historical record

  • Development status: Occurrence

Operators / organizations

  • M. E. Bailey And Assocs Of Goldfield · Source-reported owner

Commodities & minerals

Reported minerals

  • Quartz
  • Acanthite
  • Chalcocite
  • Chalcopyrite
  • commodity:Gold
  • commodity:Silver
  • Covellite
  • Diorite
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  • Quartz
  • Acanthite
  • Chalcocite
  • Chalcopyrite
  • commodity:Gold
  • commodity:Silver
  • Covellite
  • Diorite
  • Enargite
  • Freibergite Subgroup
  • Galena
  • Hessite
  • Kuramite
  • Pyrite
  • Quartz
  • Rhyolite
  • Sphalerite

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 (2)
  • mapped adit symbols (3)

Historical mapped features may no longer exist.

Dataset information

Mindat

Type: Mineralogical locality database

Record: Mindat Locality: 61838

Supports:

  • locality identity
  • reported minerals (16)

A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.

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