USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Esmeralda County
Gates Mine
Unconfirmed Clay Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Esmeralda
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Clay
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Faults, Generally Trending NW Alteration: Strong Commodity: Ore is commonly sheared and broken into fine-grained, flaky, light-colored material. Less commonly, the ore is massive but cut by numerous shear surfaces. Chlorite is the most abu…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 shaft symbol
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: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Calcite
- Plagioclase
- Quartz
- Sericite
- Tremolite
- Chlorite
- Talc
- Calcite
View all 20 reported minerals
- Calcite
- Plagioclase
- Quartz
- Sericite
- Tremolite
- Chlorite
- Talc
- Calcite
- Chlorite Group
- commodity:Clay
- commodity:Talc
- Diorite
- Dolostone
- Muscovite
- Plagioclase
- Quartz
- Sericite
- Talc
- Tremolite
- Tuff
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)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 63382
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (13)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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