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
Also known as
- Little Gold Acres, Old Kennecott Group, Lime Point, Lakin, Maloney, Little Squirt
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.
- 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: Producer
Operators / organizations
- Cortez Gold Mines · Historical operator
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Galena
- Gold
- Molybdenite
- Pyrite
- Pyrrhotite
- Scheelite
- Sphalerite
- Actinolite
View all 40 reported minerals
- 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
- Molybdenite
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 (33)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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