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Nevada · Esmeralda County

Shirley Property

Unconfirmed Silver Mixed Underground / Surface 1 mapped shaft

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Key facts

State
Nevada
County
Esmeralda
Mining district
Silver Peak District (1865)
Development status
Occurrence
Mine type
Mixed underground / surface
Primary commodity
Silver
Verification
Unconfirmed

Also known as

  • Silver Peak-Divide Claims No. 1-6 Probably Same As Unnamed Shafts, And Adits of J. Quade's Field Examination-Sample Location 1140.

Mine Location

Approximate Area

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Documented underground workings

Mindat locality description

Deposit: Quartz vein and outcrop. Sulfide mineralization in quartz vein material. Development: Prospect was deemed "poor" and "not worthy of development" by examiner in 1920. Probably Same As Unnamed Shafts; And Adits of J. Quade's Field Examinatio…

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Additional documented workings

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

Historical mapped workings

USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.

  • 1 shaft symbol
  • Shaft : Lida Wash , 1963
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Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.

  • Adit
    Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: "poor" and "not worthy of development" by examiner in 1920. Probably Same As Unnamed Shafts; And Adits of J. Quade's Field Examinatio…
  • Shaft
    Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
  • Shaft
    Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: was deemed "poor" and "not worthy of development" by examiner in 1920. Probably Same As Unnamed Shafts; And Adits of J. Quade's 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.

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Why it's listed

Source records document both underground and surface mining.

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History & operations

Historical record

  • Development status: Occurrence

Operators / organizations

  • John Shirley And Frank Cleary · Source-reported owner

Commodities & minerals

Reported minerals

  • Quartz
  • Talc
  • commodity:Copper
  • commodity:Gold
  • commodity:Silver
  • Quartz
  • Talc

Access & recent conditions

Land
unknown

Community reports

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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 (1)

Historical mapped features may no longer exist.

Dataset information

Mindat

Type: Mineralogical locality database

Record: Mindat Locality: 429234

Supports:

  • locality identity
  • reported minerals (5)

A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.

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