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Tip Top Mine

Past Producer in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10045316
MRDS ID M233018
Record type Site
Current site name Tip Top Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.30372, 37.92993 (WGS84)
Elevation 2682

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Montgomery(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Benton Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Mariposa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Crowley Lake(hydrologic unit)

Mono-Owens Lakes(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Inyo National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Mineral
United States Nevada Esmeralda

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 001N 033E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.30372, 37.92993
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LINEAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Contact Between Andesite And Rhyolite

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of last production 1918

Mining district

District name Buena Vista District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 304.8M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ROSS, D.C., 1961, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OP MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADO: NBMG BULL. 58.

  • Deposit

    LINCOLN, F.C., 1923, MINING DISTRICTS AND MINERAL RESOURCES OP NEVADA: RENO, NEVADA NEWSLETTER PUBLISHING CO, P. 137-157.

  • Production

    ROSS, D.C., 1961, TABLE 6.2

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit TWO VEINS NEAR CONTACT OF ANDESITE WITH THYOLITE (BOTH TERTIARY AND PRESUMABLY POST-ESMERALDA) WERE MINED FOR GOLD AND SILVER.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1981 Tingley, J.V. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

External references

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Authoritative Nevada resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.