USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Esmeralda County
Maria Claims
Unconfirmed Gold Underground 4 mapped shafts 1 mapped adit
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Esmeralda
- Mining district
- Rock Hill District
- Development status
- Occurrence
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- NBMG Sample Site 1090
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Deposit: Shear zone could possibly be thrust fault between diablo frm. (overling) palmetto frm. Geology: The most rock consists of silicious sediments and metasediments, heavily Fe and Mn oxide stained, gossany, boxworked, chalcedony coats, rock surfa…
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.
- 4 shaft symbols
- 1 adit symbol
- Shaft : Rock Hill , 1968
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
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: Occurrence
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- commodity:Gold
- Limonite
- Quartz
- 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 (4)
- mapped adit symbols (1)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 429020
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (4)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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