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Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Esmeralda County
Nevada Talc Mine
Unconfirmed Talc-Soapstone Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Esmeralda
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Talc-Soapstone
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Roughly E-W-Striking Faults Dipping N At 56-60 Alteration: Strong Hydrothermal Alteration Of Quartz Monzonite Commodity: Ore material is greenish gray, very fine grained, homogeneous, usually sheared to a white or light greenish gray fine-…
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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=Past 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: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- R. T. Vanderbilt Co. · Historical operator · 1975
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Andesite
- Calcite
- Chlorite Group
- commodity:Clay
- commodity:Talc
- Feldspar Group
- Montmorillonite
- Muscovite
View all 10 reported minerals
- Andesite
- Calcite
- Chlorite Group
- commodity:Clay
- commodity:Talc
- Feldspar Group
- Montmorillonite
- Muscovite
- Quartz-monzonite
- Sericite
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 429113
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (10)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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