USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Washoe County
Fravel Mines
Source Corroborated Gold Mixed Underground / Surface 4 mapped shafts 5 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Washoe
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Also known as
- Standard, Golden Fleece Mine, Fravel-Paymaster Mine, Peavine Mine, Standard Metals Co.
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Ore(s): Host-Rock Foliation Alteration: Propylization Deposit type: Epithermal quartz-alunite Au
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 4 shaft symbols
- 5 adit symbols
- Shaft : Verdi , 1967
- Shaft : Reno , 1950
View individual source records (4)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Surface-Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Surface-Underground · oper_type
Verification
Source Corroborated
Additional historical source evidence corroborates this record. This is not a member field verification of current conditions.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Acanthite
- Calcite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Enargite
View all 14 reported minerals
- Acanthite
- Calcite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Enargite
- Galena
- Metavolcanic rock
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Quartz-monzonite
- Sphalerite
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 (4)
- mapped adit symbols (5)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 43285
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (14)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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