USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Lyon County
Wilson and Wheeler Mine Area
Unconfirmed Gold Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Lyon
- Mining district
- Wilson District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Pine Grove, Telluride Claims
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: NW-trending fault. sheared graniorite cut by dikes of granite porphyry and capped bt Tertiary rhyolite. Tectonics: continental magmatic arc Commodity: Ore Materials: pyrite, chalcopyrite Gangue Materials: quartz, calcite, limonite Deposit…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 5 shaft symbols
- 29 adit symbols
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=Past 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: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- Inmet Mining Corp. · Historical operator · 2001
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Calcite
- Limonite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Chalcopyrite
- Calcite
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Copper
View all 18 reported minerals
- Calcite
- Limonite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Chalcopyrite
- Calcite
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- Granite
- Limonite
- Monzonite
- Porphyry
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Quartz-monzonite
- 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 (5)
- mapped adit symbols (29)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 431469
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (13)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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