USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Churchill County
NBMG Sample Site 3891
Mindat Confirmed Silver Underground 3 mapped shafts 5 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Churchill
- Mining district
- Wonder District
- Development status
- Occurrence
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Faults-Gold King Group Fault Deposit: Workings follow an irregular-striking vein in and along the major fault-vein system identified by schrader As the gold king group fault, in rhyolite. Sample 3925 was collected from within the stope and …
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 3 source records,
noting 1245 ft, 1675 ft.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features · Mindat -
Drift
— documented in 1 source record,
noting 1675 ft.
Mindat -
Stope
— documented in 1 source record.
Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 3 shaft symbols
- 5 adit symbols
- Adit : Wonder Mountain , 1972
- Adit : Wonder Mountain , 1972
View individual source records (7)
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. -
Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Adit
· length 1245 ft
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: Structure: Cross-Faults Deposit: Main adit bears S 40 W for 1245 ft crossing under the major nw-trending gold king vein system descri… -
Drift
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: d by schrader (1947) leading off the main adit are another 1675 ft of what appear to be exploratory drifts, many of... Historical con… -
Stope
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: ed by schrader As the gold king group fault, in rhyolite. Sample 3925 was collected from within the stope and ...
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type
Verification
Mindat Confirmed
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why confirmed?
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Occurrence
Operators / organizations
- Perry, Ray A. · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Quartz
- Gold
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- Fine-grained ("volcanic") normal crystalline igneous rock
- Limonite
- Native Gold
- Quartz
View all 9 reported minerals
- Quartz
- Gold
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- Fine-grained ("volcanic") normal crystalline igneous rock
- Limonite
- Native Gold
- Quartz
- Rhyolite
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 (3)
- mapped adit symbols (5)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 416716
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (7)
- underground workings
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