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Nevada · Lander County

Great Eastern

Mindat Confirmed Gold Underground

Key facts

State
Nevada
County
Lander
Development status
Past Producer
Mine type
Underground
Primary commodity
Gold
Verification
Mindat Confirmed

Mine Location

Approximate Area

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Documented underground workings

Mindat locality description

Structure: Fractures, Postmineral Joints Alteration: Oxidation Deposit: Reticulate vein pattern with irregular ore shoots that generally are less than 100 ft long Deposit type: Polymetallic veins Ore(s): Fault And Joint Fractures

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Additional documented workings

  • Shaft — documented in 1 source record.
    Mindat

Historical mapped workings

USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.

  • 13 shaft symbols
  • 4 adit symbols
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Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.

  • Shaft
    Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: Great Eastern shaft, Lander Hill, Reese River Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
  • Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
  • MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Underground · oper_type

Verification

Mindat Confirmed

Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.

Why confirmed?

Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.

Why it's listed

USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.

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History & operations

Historical record

  • Development status: Past Producer

Commodities & minerals

Reported minerals

  • Acanthite
  • Ankerite
  • Calcite
  • Chlorargyrite
  • commodity:Gold
  • commodity:Silver
  • Galena
  • Graphite
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  • Acanthite
  • Ankerite
  • Calcite
  • Chlorargyrite
  • commodity:Gold
  • commodity:Silver
  • Galena
  • Graphite
  • Native Silver
  • Polybasite
  • Proustite
  • Pyrargyrite
  • Pyrite
  • Pyrolusite
  • Quartz
  • Quartz-monzonite
  • Rhodochrosite
  • Sphalerite
  • Stephanite
  • Stibnite

Access & recent conditions

Land
unknown

Community reports

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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 (13)
  • mapped adit symbols (4)

Historical mapped features may no longer exist.

Dataset information

Mindat

Type: Mineralogical locality database

Record: Mindat Locality: 60407

Supports:

  • locality identity
  • reported minerals (20)

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

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