USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Mineral County
Rawhide Mine
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
- Denton-Rawhide Mine, Kennecott-Rawhide Mine, Rawhide Group, Rawhide Gold Mine, Nevada New Mines, Gravel, North Buckskin, Regent Hill, South Forty, Black Eagle Southwest, Hooligan Hill, Murray Hill, Balloon Hill, Crazy Hi
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.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Surface-Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=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: Producer
Operators / organizations
- Kennecott Rawhide Mining Co. · Historical operator · 2004
- Pacific Rim Mining Corp. · Historical operator · 2004
Commodities & minerals
- Gold · primary
- Silver
- Copper
- Lead
- Antimony
- Molybdenum
- Zinc
- Chlorine
- Bromine
- Aluminum
- Tungsten
- Selenium
- Mercury
- Arsenic
- Barium-Barite
Reported minerals
- Adularia
- Alunite
- Calcite
- Chalcedony
- Chert
- Goethite
- Hematite
- Jarosite
View all 31 reported minerals
- Adularia
- Alunite
- Calcite
- Chalcedony
- Chert
- Goethite
- Hematite
- Jarosite
- Kaolin
- Pyrite
- Pyrrhotite
- Quartz
- Acanthite
- Argentite
- Argentojarosite
- Azurite
- Cerargyrite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chrysocolla
- Copper
- Covellite
- Electrum
- Embolite
- Galena
- Gold
- Malachite
- Proustite
- Pyrargyrite
- Scheelite
- Silver
- Tetrahedrite
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