USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Lyon County
Talapoosa Deposit
Unconfirmed Gold Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Lyon
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Gold Silver copper Structure: The deposit occurs at the intersection of the Gooseberry-Talapoosa Lineament (a major E-W trending structural zone) and the NW-trending Bear Creek structural zone. Important mineralized structures include E-W and NW…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 11 shaft symbols
- 19 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
- Pegasus Gold, Inc. (70%)/Athena Gold Corp. (30%) Joint Venture · Historical operator
- Miramar Mining Corp. (Acq 100% Of Athena 01/95) · Source-reported owner · 1996
- Pegasus Gold Inc. · Source-reported owner · 1994
- American Gold Capital Corp. · Historical operator · 2004
- Athena Gold Corporation (100% Sub - Miramar Mining Corp) · Historical operator · 1996
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Adularia
- Allophane
- Alunite
- Argentite
- Calcite
- Celadonite
- Chlorite
- Cinnabar
View all 40 reported minerals
- Adularia
- Allophane
- Alunite
- Argentite
- Calcite
- Celadonite
- Chlorite
- Cinnabar
- Epidote
- Gypsum
- Halloysite
- Illite
- Jarosite
- Kaolinite
- Montmorillonite
- Opal
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Sericite
- Zeolite
- Electrum
- Acanthite
- Adularia
- Allophane
- Alunite
- Andesite
- Calcite
- Celadonite
- Chlorite Group
- Cinnabar
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Mercury
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Dacite
- Electrum
- Epidote
- Giraudite-(Zn)
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 (11)
- mapped adit symbols (19)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 61125
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (19)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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