USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Nye County
Vanderhoef Claims
Unconfirmed Silver Underground 3 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Nye
- Development status
- Occurrence
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Lilly and Garden Claims
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Steep East-Trending Fault With Horizontal Slickensides Cuts Offore. Deposit: 20-ft wide quartz vein in micaceous shaley limestone pendant engulfed in quartz monzonite Deposit type: Polymetallic veins Geology: Limestone strikes n70w, dips s…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 3 adit symbols
- Adit : Troy Canyon , 1990
- Adit : Troy Canyon , 1990
View individual source records (4)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Occurrence
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Iron
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Galena
- Cerussite
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
View all 15 reported minerals
- Iron
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Galena
- Cerussite
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Galena
- Limestone
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Quartz-monzonite
- Quartzite
- Sphalerite
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 (3)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 40769
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (11)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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