USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Humboldt County
Turquoise Ridge Mine
Unconfirmed Gold Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Humboldt
- Mining district
- Potosi District
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Powder Hill, Bud Hill, A Zone, Shaft Zone, N Beds, considered to be a satellite deposit of Getchell Gold Mines
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: The Turquoise Ridge deposit occurs on a northeast-trending fault system that extends to the Getchell Main Pit, where it intersects the main Getchell Fault Zone. To the northeast, it heads towards the Chimney Creek ore body. The NNW-trending …
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=Producer): 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: Producer
Operators / organizations
- Barrick Gold Corp. · Historical operator / Source-reported owner · 2006
Commodities & minerals
- Gold · primary
- Silver
- Arsenic
- Bismuth
- Tin
- Lead
- Zinc
- Antimony
- Mercury
- Barium-Barite
- Molybdenum
- Fluorine-Fluorite
- Thallium
- Tellurium
- Copper
- Tungsten
Reported minerals
- Arsenolite
- Arsenopyrite
- Barite
- Bismuthinite
- Calcite
- Cassiterite
- Chabazite
- Chalcocite
View all 40 reported minerals
- Arsenolite
- Arsenopyrite
- Barite
- Bismuthinite
- Calcite
- Cassiterite
- Chabazite
- Chalcocite
- Chlorite
- Cinnabar
- Coloradoite
- Covellite
- Epidote
- Ferrimolybdite
- Fluorite
- Galena
- Galkhaite
- Garnet
- Getchellite
- Guerinite
- Gypsum
- Haidingerite
- Hubnerite
- Ilsemannite
- Laffittite
- Magnetite
- Marcasite
- Molybdenite
- Orpiment
- Pharmacolite
- Pyrite
- Pyrrhotite
- Realgar
- Scheelite
- Sericite
- Sphalerite
- Stibnite
- Weilite
- Electrum
- Gold
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 (1)
- mapped adit symbols (1)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 430185
Supports:
- locality identity
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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Historical mapped workings available
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