USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Humboldt County
Getchell / Turquoise Ridge Underground
Unconfirmed Gold Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Humboldt
- Mining district
- Potosi District
- Development status
- Plant
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Source classification: Underground operation documented
Specific physical workings are not yet documented in discrete records.
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 shaft symbol
- 1 adit symbol
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): Surface-Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Plant): Surface-Underground · oper_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Plant
Operators / organizations
- First Mississippi Corp. · Historical operator · 1987
- Firstmiss Gold, Inc. · Historical operator · 1991
- Getchell Gold Corp. · Historical operator · 1997
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Arsenopyrite
- Calcite
- Chabazite
- Chalcopyrite
- Cinnabar
- Fluorite
- Gold
- Kaolinite
View all 17 reported minerals
- Arsenopyrite
- Calcite
- Chabazite
- Chalcopyrite
- Cinnabar
- Fluorite
- Gold
- Kaolinite
- Magnetite
- Marcasite
- Orpiment
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Realgar
- Scheelite
- Sphalerite
- Stibnite
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- private property
- Source
- Active/industrial mining region public reporting + USGS MRDS
- Access information last checked
- August 10, 2026
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 (1)
- mapped adit symbols (1)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Active/industrial mining region public reporting + USGS MRDS
Type: Access / land-management source
Supports:
- access / lawful visit information
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