USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Esmeralda County
Tonopah Divide Gold and Silver Project
Unconfirmed Silver Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Esmeralda
- Mining district
- (Gold Mountain District)
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Source classification: Underground operation documented
Specific physical workings are not yet documented in discrete records.
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 22 shaft symbols
- 8 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
- Tonogold Resources Inc. · Historical operator · 2006
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Limonite
- Adularia
- Argentite
- Cerargyrite
- Chalcopyrite
- Ferrimolybdite
- Galena
- Gold
View all 16 reported minerals
- Limonite
- Adularia
- Argentite
- Cerargyrite
- Chalcopyrite
- Ferrimolybdite
- Galena
- Gold
- Kaolinite
- Molybdenite
- Powellite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Sericite
- Sphalerite
- Tetrahedrite
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 (22)
- mapped adit symbols (8)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
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