USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Elko County
Long Hike
Unconfirmed Gold Underground
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Elko
- Mining district
- Jarbidge District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Elkoro Mines Co.
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Part of Elkoro Mines property Structure: Crater Range Alteration: Silicification Deposit: Part of west vein system. Mine has a horizontal distance of 3800 ft. And a vertical distance of 1700 ft. In june 1919 it was the largest gold mine in nevada en…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 shaft symbol
- 1 adit symbol
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- Elkoro Mines Co. (1930'S) · Historical operator
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Fluorite
- Halloysite
- Sericite
- Naumannite
- Acanthite
- Adularia
- Azurite
- Baryte
View all 27 reported minerals
- Fluorite
- Halloysite
- Sericite
- Naumannite
- Acanthite
- Adularia
- Azurite
- Baryte
- Calcite
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Selenium
- commodity:Silver
- Fluorite
- Halloysite
- K Feldspar
- Kaolinite
- Limonite
- Malachite
- Muscovite
- Native Gold
- Naumannite
- Psilomelane
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Rhyolite
- Sericite
- Wad
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 (1)
- mapped adit symbols (1)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 41320
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (23)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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