USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Nye County
Life-Preserver Group
Unconfirmed Gold Mixed Underground / Surface 2 mapped shafts 3 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Nye
- Mining district
- Tolicha District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Part of Landmark-Life Preserver Group
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Faults Alteration: Silicification, Oxidation Deposit: Same vein system As at landmark mine-brecciated, silicified NBMG sample nos. 1914, 1916 ; info.src : 1 pub lit; 2 unpub rept; 3 field observ Development: Worked in about 1920's by wing…
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.
- 2 shaft symbols
- 3 adit symbols
- Shaft : Tolicha Peak , 1986
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: 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: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Quartz
- Acanthite
- Adularia
- Baryte
- Cheralite
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- Electrum
View all 19 reported minerals
- Quartz
- Acanthite
- Adularia
- Baryte
- Cheralite
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- Electrum
- Galena
- Hematite
- Illite
- K Feldspar
- Limonite
- Muscovite
- Native Gold
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Rhyolite
- Uytenbogaardtite
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.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 61841
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (18)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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