
The 20.66 acre Historic Dixie Mine in the Middlegate Mining District of Nevada
The Dixie claim has a total of three mines present on this 20.66 acre claims. Two of the mines are shafts, one is 27 feet deep the other is 43 feet deep, then it looks like it veers off to the south- although we couldn't tell for sure. The third mine is a huge audit with a lot of open space. 630 feet of total workings. It looks like the last miner actually lived in the adit - there’s an old cot and table and there’s one large cavern with three or four different crosscuts branching off. Still tones of visible vein left to work. Good XRF readings for both gold and silve. An ounce and a half per ton (43 parts per million) of silver, and 34 PPM of gold (readings ranged from 19 PPM to 58 PPM), so almost exactly an ounce per ton of gold on average. There’s an old wooden door still on the adit entrance - if you spent an hour removing some of the loose gravel on the ground, you could probably put a lock on it to keep it closed so you could secure your mine when you are not there. Looks like t