USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Lander County
Peggy Group Mine
Unconfirmed Silver Mixed Underground / Surface 1 mapped shaft 1 mapped adit
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Lander
- Mining district
- Battle Mountain District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Vail Mine
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 29 T32N R44E. Silver. Structure: Thrust Faulting At Depth E-W And Nw-Trending Faults Deposit: Located in 1916 by jasper vail, in long creek canyon, 4 claims worked intermittently by lessees, with principal production in 1935 by j.m. Wiggles worth…
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.
- 1 shaft symbol
- 1 adit symbol
- Shaft : Galena Canyon , 1984
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
Operators / organizations
- Wigglesworth, J. M. · Historical operator
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Gold
- Silver
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- Hornfels
- Native Gold
- Native Silver
View all 11 reported minerals
- Gold
- Silver
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- Hornfels
- Native Gold
- Native Silver
- Quartz-monzonite
- Quartzite
- Shale
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: 60293
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (9)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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