USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Storey County
Consolidated Virginia Mine
Unconfirmed Silver Underground
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Storey
- Mining district
- Comstock Lode
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former Ag-Au-Pb-Mo-Hg-Zn mine. Structure: Regional Dip To West & Northwest Faults Alteration: Propylitization, Oxidation, Pyritization Deposit: Vein, fissure-filling in 1972 the famous "big bonanza" was discovered at the 1200-ft level in the con…
Additional documented workings
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Level
— documented in 1 source record,
noting 1200 ft.
Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 16 shaft symbols
- 6 adit symbols
View individual source records (3)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Level
· length 1200 ft
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: tion Deposit: Vein, fissure-filling in 1972 the famous "big bonanza" was discovered at the 1200-ft level in the con... Historical con…
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_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
- Chalcopyrite
- Galena
- Pyrite
- Acanthite
- Andesite
- Arsenopyrite
- Chalcopyrite
View all 29 reported minerals
- Quartz
- Chalcopyrite
- Galena
- Pyrite
- Acanthite
- Andesite
- Arsenopyrite
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Iron
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Diaphorite
- Electrum
- Galena
- Kolymite
- Molybdenite
- Moschellandsbergite
- Native Gold
- Native Silver
- Polybasite
- Proustite
- Pyrargyrite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Sphalerite
- Stephanite
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 (16)
- mapped adit symbols (6)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 43385
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (25)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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