USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Elko County
Hollister gold Deposit
Unconfirmed Gold Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Elko
- Mining district
- Carlin Trend
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Butte #2, Clementine, Velvet, Rowena, Ivanhoe deposit, USX West, USX East, Butte #1, USX Mine
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Source classification: Underground operation documented
Specific physical workings are not yet documented in discrete records.
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 2 shaft symbols
- 3 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- 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
- Touchstone Resources, Ltd., (a wholly owned subsidiary of Cornucopia Resources.) · Historical operator
- Cornucopia Resources, Ltd. · Source-reported owner
- Galactic Resources, Ltd. · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Quartz
- Adularia
- Alunite
- Calcite
- Chalcedony
- Chlorite
- Gold
- Kaolinite
View all 11 reported minerals
- Quartz
- Adularia
- Alunite
- Calcite
- Chalcedony
- Chlorite
- Gold
- Kaolinite
- Montmorillonite
- Nontronite
- Pyrite
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 (2)
- mapped adit symbols (3)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
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