USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Pershing County
Rosebud Canyon Placers
Unconfirmed Gold Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Pershing
- Mining district
- Rosebud
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Deposit: Reportedly, best placering was near heads of canyons. Gold was characteristically flat nuggets. Titaniferous magnetite often clogged riffles in sluice boxes. Deposit type: Placer Au-PGE Development: Placers intermittently active from early 19…
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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=Past 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: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Cassiterite
- Cinnabar
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Mercury
- commodity:Tin
- commodity:Tungsten
- Gravel
- Native Gold
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- Cassiterite
- Cinnabar
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Mercury
- commodity:Tin
- commodity:Tungsten
- Gravel
- Native Gold
- Scheelite
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 344013
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (9)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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