USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Churchill County
Gold Coin Mine
Source Corroborated Gold Underground 4 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Churchill
- Mining district
- Fairview District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features -
Portal
— documented in 1 source record,
noting 130 ft, 15 ft wide.
Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 4 adit symbols
- Adit : Bell Canyon , 1972
View individual source records (4)
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. -
Portal
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: Alteration: Silicification Deposit: Was sunk 130 ft from the portal. The workings were reported by schrader to be mostly in a white q…
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): 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
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Acanthite
- Andesite
- Calcite
- Fine-grained ("volcanic") normal crystalline igneous rock
- Quartz
- Rhyolite
- Tuff
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 (4)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 416528
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (7)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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