USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Elko County
Riddle Lease
Mindat Confirmed Gold Underground
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Elko
- Mining district
- Jarbidge Mining District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Deposit: Held and operated in 1910 by riddle & corrigan. Developement at that time consisted of a tunnel on drift 100-ft. Long on a spur-vein crosscutting the main paulak vein. 8-inch ore streak ; info.src : 1 pub lit Deposit type: Epithermal vein, Co…
Additional documented workings
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Drift
— documented in 1 source record,
noting 100 ft.
Mindat -
Tunnel
— documented in 1 source record,
noting 100 ft.
Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 adit symbol
View individual source records (4)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Drift
· length 100 ft
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: Held and operated in 1910 by riddle & corrigan. Developement at that time consisted of a tunnel on drift 100-ft. Long on a spur-vein… -
Tunnel
· length 100 ft
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: Deposit: Held and operated in 1910 by riddle & corrigan. Developement at that time consisted of a tunnel on drift 100-ft. Long on a s…
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Underground · oper_type
Verification
Mindat Confirmed
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why confirmed?
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- commodity:Gold
- Fluorite
- Muscovite
- Quartz
- Rhyolite
- Sericite
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 adit symbols (1)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 428309
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (6)
- underground workings
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