USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Mineral County
Rawhide Deposit
Unconfirmed Gold Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Mineral
- Mining district
- Regent District
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Rawhide Gold Mine, Nevada New Mines, Balloon Hill, Murray Hill, Crazy Hill, Grutt Hill, NBMG Sample Sites 3311 and 3312. This Record Has Been Merged With, Records #D0040 and #M242956 and Includes Information From Them.,
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Source classification: Underground operation documented
Specific physical workings are not yet documented in discrete records.
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 145 shaft symbols
- 20 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: Producer
Operators / organizations
- Kennecott · Historical operator
- Kiewit Mining Group Inc. · Historical operator
- Plexus Resources Corp. · Historical operator
- Kennecott Rawhide Mining Co. · Historical operator
- Kennecott Joint Venture : · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
- Gold · primary
- Silver
- Lead
- Copper
- Arsenic
- Barium-Barite
- Antimony
- Molybdenum
- Zinc
- Chlorine
- Bromine
- Aluminum
- Tungsten
- Selenium
- Mercury
Reported minerals
- Calcite
- Chalcedony
- Chert
- Goethite
- Hematite
- Jarosite
- Kaolin
- Pyrrhotite
View all 26 reported minerals
- Calcite
- Chalcedony
- Chert
- Goethite
- Hematite
- Jarosite
- Kaolin
- Pyrrhotite
- Quartz
- Acanthite
- Argentite
- Cerargyrite
- Chalcopyrite
- Copper
- Covellite
- Electrum
- Embolite
- Galena
- Gold
- Proustite
- Pyrargyrite
- Pyrite
- Scheelite
- Silver
- Tetrahedrite
- Alunite
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 (145)
- mapped adit symbols (20)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
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Documented shaft/adit evidence