USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Eureka County
Chukar Footwall Mine
Unconfirmed Gold Underground
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Eureka
- Mining district
- Carlin Trend
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Chukar, Gold Quarry Mine Area
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former Au-Ag-As-Sb-Hg-Tl-Ba-Pb-Zn-Cu-Mn-Ni mine located adjacent to the Gold Quarry Mine open pit, about 6 miles northwest of Carlin, Nevada. Discovered by the Newmont Mining Corp. in 2001. Operated only during the period 2003-2004. Owned and operate…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 2 shaft symbols
- 4 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=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: Producer
Operators / organizations
- Newmont, the Gold Company · Historical operator · 2004
Commodities & minerals
- Gold · primary
- Silver
- Mercury
- Thallium
- Barium-Barite
- Lead
- Zinc
- Copper
- Manganese
- Nickel
- Arsenic
- Antimony
Reported minerals
- Silica
- Alunite
- Barite
- Gold
- Kaolinite
- Pyrite
- "Herkimer-style" Quartz
- Alunite
View all 40 reported minerals
- Silica
- Alunite
- Barite
- Gold
- Kaolinite
- Pyrite
- "Herkimer-style" Quartz
- Alunite
- Arsenopyrite
- Baryte
- Biotite
- Boulangerite
- Breccia
- Calcite
- Chalcedony
- Clay
- Clinopyroxene Subgroup
- commodity:Gold
- Dickite
- Diopside
- Dolomite
- Exoskarn
- Fluorite
- Galena
- Geocronite
- Guettardite
- Hornfels
- Illite
- Iron-bearing Dolomite
- K Feldspar
- Kaolinite
- Limestone
- Marcasite
- Minrecordite
- Muscovite
- Native Gold
- Orpiment
- Phlogopite
- Phyllosilicate
- Pyrite
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 (2)
- mapped adit symbols (4)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 250529
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (34)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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