USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Esmeralda County
Oasis Mine
Unconfirmed Talc-Soapstone Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Esmeralda
- Mining district
- Sylvania (Green Mountain) District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Talc-Soapstone
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Sierra Talc Mine In Part
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Palmetto-Oasis Thrust Fault Alteration: Chloritization Of Quartz Monzonite Near Contact Deposit: Talcose bodies occurs As irregular lenses along the fault zone 15 to 150 ft in strike length. Some talc bodies are wholly within the dolomite …
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 5 shaft symbols
- 9 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- 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
- Calcite
- Steatite
- Talc
- Calcite
- Chlorite
- Chlorite Group
- commodity:Clay
- Diorite
View all 12 reported minerals
- Calcite
- Steatite
- Talc
- Calcite
- Chlorite
- Chlorite Group
- commodity:Clay
- Diorite
- Dolostone
- Quartz-monzonite
- Steatite
- Talc
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 (5)
- mapped adit symbols (9)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 60848
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (8)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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