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Nevada · Esmeralda County

Red Rock Claims Nos. 1 and 2.

Unconfirmed Uranium Mixed Underground / Surface 3 mapped shafts 6 mapped adits

Key facts

State
Nevada
County
Esmeralda
Development status
Occurrence
Mine type
Mixed underground / surface
Primary commodity
Uranium
Verification
Unconfirmed

Mine Location

Approximate Area

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Documented underground workings

  • Adit — documented in 2 source records.
    USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
  • Shaft — documented in 1 source record.
    USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features

Historical mapped workings

USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.

  • 3 shaft symbols
  • 6 adit symbols
  • Shaft : Scottys Junction SW , 1968
  • Adit : Scottys Junction SW , 1968
  • Adit : Scottys Junction SW , 1968
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Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.

  • Adit
    Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
  • Adit
    Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
  • 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.

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History & operations

Historical record

  • Development status: Occurrence

Commodities & minerals

Reported minerals

  • Siderite
  • Malachite

Access & recent conditions

Land
unknown

Community reports

No community field reports yet.

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Sources & evidence

USGS Mineral Resources Data System

Type: Historical mine record

Supports:

  • mine identity
  • development status
  • commodities
  • underground eligibility evidence

USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features

Type: Historical mapped physical features

Dataset: DOI 10.5066/P9TAALR6

Supports:

  • mapped shaft symbols (3)
  • mapped adit symbols (6)

Historical mapped features may no longer exist.

Dataset information

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Nevada · Esmeralda County

Unconfirmed Uranium Occurrence Mixed Underground/Surface

Documented adit evidence