USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Elko County
Grand Prize
Source Corroborated Silver Underground 8 mapped shafts
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Elko
- Mining district
- Tuscarora
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: East-Striking Faults, Conjugate To A Set Of Northwest-Striking Faults. Alteration: Early Propylitic, And Inner Potassic Zones Deposit: Best ore shoots formed at intersections of fissures. Ore minerals were native silver, horn silver & silv…
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 8 shaft symbols
- Shaft : Tuscarora , 1956
View individual source records (3)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type
Verification
Source Corroborated
Additional historical source evidence corroborates this record. This is not a member field verification of current conditions.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Silver
- Acanthite
- Andesite
- Chlorargyrite
- commodity:Silver
- Electrum
- Limonite
- Native Gold
View all 15 reported minerals
- Silver
- Acanthite
- Andesite
- Chlorargyrite
- commodity:Silver
- Electrum
- Limonite
- Native Gold
- Native Silver
- Pyrargyrite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Siderite
- Stephanite
- Tetrahedrite Subgroup
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 (8)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 41666
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (14)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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