USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Nye County
Vindicator Mine
Mindat Confirmed Gold Mixed Underground / Surface 1 mapped shaft 1 mapped adit
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Nye
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Also known as
- NBMG Sample Site 3170
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Alteration: Argillization Of Volcanics. Deposit: Sample 3170 was chipped from a vein in an adit bearing n70w, 90 degrees. Adit is now part of a glory hole in white argillized volcanics Development: Very old workings: glory hole would indicate some sm…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features · Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 shaft symbol
- 1 adit symbol
- Adit : Ellsworth , 1988
View individual source records (5)
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
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: Alteration: Argillization Of Volcanics. Deposit: Sample 3170 was chipped from a vein in an adit bearing n70w, 90 degrees. Adit is now…
- USGS MRDS working type: Surface/Underground
- Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: n70w, 90 degrees. Adit is now part of a glory hole in white argillized volcanics Development: Very old workings: glory hole would indicate some sm...
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface/Underground · work_type
Verification
Mindat Confirmed
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why confirmed?
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- Cominco · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Gold
- commodity:Gold
- Native Gold
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 (1)
- mapped adit symbols (1)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 40110
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (2)
- underground workings
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