USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Lander County
Gold Acres Deposit
Unconfirmed Gold Mixed Underground / Surface 3 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Lander
- Mining district
- Bullion District
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 36 T28N R46E. Major gold mine in district. Structure: Gold Acres is exposed at the western margin of the Gold Acres window along the NW-trending Roberts Mountains thrust, Cortez-Uinta axis. It lies along the Eureka-Battle Mountain trend of aligned…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 3 adit symbols
- Adit : Crescent Valley , 1949
View individual source records (3)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Surface-Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Producer): Surface-Underground · oper_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
- Cortez Joint Venture: Kennecott Explorations · Historical operator · 2004
- Cortez Joint Venture: Placer Dome, Inc. · Historical operator · 2004
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Arsenopyrite
- Galena
- Gold
- Molybdenite
- Pyrite
- Pyrrhotite
- Scheelite
- Sphalerite
View all 40 reported minerals
- Arsenopyrite
- Galena
- Gold
- Molybdenite
- Pyrite
- Pyrrhotite
- Scheelite
- Sphalerite
- Actinolite
- Arsenopyrite
- Azurite
- Calcite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chert
- commodity:Antimony
- commodity:Arsenic
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Mercury
- commodity:Molybdenum
- commodity:Thallium
- commodity:Tungsten
- commodity:Zinc
- Diopside
- Dolomite
- Epidote
- Galena
- Garnet Group
- Goethite
- Gypsum
- Hematite
- Hexahydrite
- Jarosite
- Kaolinite
- Limestone
- Limonite
- Magnetite
- Marcasite
- Melanterite
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 adit symbols (3)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 59987
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (32)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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