USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Lincoln County
Culverwell Mine
Mindat Confirmed Gold Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Lincoln
- Development status
- Plant
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Also known as
- Tom & Jerry Mine, Culverwell, Johnson Mine, Culverwell-Johnson
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Fractures, Faults Alteration: Silication, Marbelization, Chloritization Deposit: The shaft is inclined along an iron-stained, silicified, gossan replacement zone. Mineralized dump rock is red-black, very dense and composed almost wholly of…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 1 source record.
Mindat -
Shaft
— documented in 1 source record.
Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 2 adit symbols
View individual source records (4)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Adit
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: Structure: Fractures, Faults Alteration: Silication, Marbelization, Chloritization Deposit: The shaft is inclined along an iron-stain… -
Shaft
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: Structure: Fractures, Faults Alteration: Silication, Marbelization, Chloritization Deposit: The shaft is inclined along an iron-stain…
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Surface-Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Plant): Surface-Underground · oper_type
Verification
Mindat Confirmed
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why confirmed?
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Plant
Operators / organizations
- Fisher Watt Mining Co. · Historical operator · 1987
- Mineop Corp. · Historical operator · 1979
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Calcite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chlorite Group
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Iron
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Tungsten
View all 13 reported minerals
- Calcite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chlorite Group
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Iron
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Tungsten
- Diorite
- Epidote
- Limestone
- Magnetite
- Pyrite
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 adit symbols (2)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 430822
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (13)
- underground workings
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