USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Lander County
Contention
Unconfirmed Copper Underground
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Lander
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Copper
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 29 T32N R43E. Gold Structure: Dewitt Thrust Fault "Pebble Dikes" Containing Fragments Of Both Quartz Monzonite Porphyry And Argillite; Displacement Oby Faults (Contention, Dewitt, Kelly And Middleton Faults Alteration: Intense Hydrothermal, Arg…
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Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Underground · oper_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
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
- Actinolite
- Andradite
- Arsenopyrite
- Biotite
- Calcite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chrysocolla
View all 31 reported minerals
- Actinolite
- Andradite
- Arsenopyrite
- Biotite
- Calcite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chrysocolla
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- Covellite
- Diopside
- Epidote
- Ferrimolybdite
- Galena
- Goethite
- Grossular
- Hematite
- Jarosite
- Limonite
- Malachite
- Marcasite
- Molybdenite
- Pyrite
- Pyrrhotite
- Quartz
- Quartz-monzonite
- Sandstone
- Sphalerite
- Tremolite
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 60163
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (31)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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Historical mapped workings available