USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Eureka County
Eureka Consolidated
Unconfirmed Gold Underground
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Eureka
- Mining district
- Eureka District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Champion and Buckeye
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Compound Thrust Faults, Perhaps In Front Of Deep Roberts Mountain Thrust Fault To West; Later Block Faulting. Complex Faulting Alteration: Oxidation To 1000 Ft Deposit: Ore is replacement in eldorado dolomite in upper plate of ruby hill th…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 52 shaft symbols
- 19 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_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
Operators / organizations
- Eureka Consolidated Co. (Present) · Historical operator
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Aragonite
- Calcite
- Malachite
- Quartz
- Siderite
- Anglesite
- Galena
- Gold
View all 33 reported minerals
- Aragonite
- Calcite
- Malachite
- Quartz
- Siderite
- Anglesite
- Galena
- Gold
- Hematite
- Mimetite
- Plumbojarosite
- Pyrite
- Anglesite
- Aragonite
- Azurite
- Calcite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Iron
- commodity:Molybdenum
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Tellurium
- Dolostone
- Galena
- Hematite
- Malachite
- Mimetite
- Native Gold
- Plumbojarosite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Siderite
- 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 (52)
- mapped adit symbols (19)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 62178
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (21)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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