USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Churchill County
Nevada Wonder Mine
Unconfirmed Gold Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Churchill
- Mining district
- Wonder District
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Wonder Mine, NBMG Sample Sites 3802, 3803
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 4 T18N R35E. Main mine in district.
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 19 shaft symbols
- 7 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- USGS MRDS working type: Surface/Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface/Underground · work_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: Producer
Operators / organizations
- Belmont Resources Inc., Tom Nimsic, Manager, Lessees, Of Vancouver · Historical operator
- Frank Lewis, - Owner Of Patented Claims And Some Unpatented. · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Fluorite
- Kaolin
- Limonite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Sericite
- Argentite
- Cerargyrite
View all 31 reported minerals
- Fluorite
- Kaolin
- Limonite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Sericite
- Argentite
- Cerargyrite
- Stephanite
- Wulfenite
- Acanthite
- Adularia
- Bromine-bearing Chlorargyrite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chlorargyrite
- Dacite
- Fluorite
- Galena
- Iodargyrite
- Iodine and Bromine-bearing Chlorargyrite
- K Feldspar
- Limonite
- Molybdenite
- Native Gold
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Rhyolite
- Sphalerite
- Stephanite
- Wad
- Wulfenite
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 (19)
- mapped adit symbols (7)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 60993
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (21)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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