USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
California · Nevada County
Champion-Providence Mine
Unconfirmed Gold Underground 1 mapped adit
Key facts
- State
- California
- County
- Nevada
- Mining district
- Nevada City District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Champion, Champion Group, Nevada City, Wyoming, Home, Merrifield, Cadmus, Soggs, several other properties, Providence, New Year
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
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Adit
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 adit symbol
- Adit : Nevada City , 1948
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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.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Underground · oper_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: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Quartz
- Altaite
- Arsenopyrite
- Chalcopyrite
- Galena
- Gold
- Pyrite
- Pyrrhotite
View all 10 reported minerals
- Quartz
- Altaite
- Arsenopyrite
- Chalcopyrite
- Galena
- Gold
- Pyrite
- Pyrrhotite
- Sphalerite
- Telluride
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 (1)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
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