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Nevada · Nye County

Zorro Group

Unconfirmed Silver Mixed Underground / Surface 3 mapped shafts

Key facts

State
Nevada
County
Nye
Development status
Occurrence
Mine type
Mixed underground / surface
Primary commodity
Silver
Verification
Unconfirmed

Also known as

  • Zorro No. 1-6, Zorro Fraction, Dodge Claims

Mine Location

Approximate Area

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Documented underground workings

Mindat locality description

Deposit: Ore occurs in small quartz seams in rhyolite, and in places in a white tall along fault zones

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Additional documented workings

  • Shaft — documented in 1 source record.
    USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features

Historical mapped workings

USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.

  • 3 shaft symbols
  • Shaft : Hannapah , 1986
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Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.

  • Shaft
    Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the 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.

Why it's listed

Source records document both underground and surface mining.

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History & operations

Historical record

  • Development status: Occurrence

Commodities & minerals

Reported minerals

  • commodity:Gold
  • commodity:Silver
  • Quartz
  • Rhyolite

Access & recent conditions

Land
unknown

Community reports

No community field reports yet.

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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 (3)

Historical mapped features may no longer exist.

Dataset information

Mindat

Type: Mineralogical locality database

Record: Mindat Locality: 436708

Supports:

  • locality identity
  • reported minerals (4)

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

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