USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Humboldt County
Kramer Hill Mine
Unconfirmed Gold Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Humboldt
- Mining district
- Golconda District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Golconda Gold Ledge Mining Co.
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Alteration: Silicification And Argillization. Both The Fault And Hanging Wall Fracture Zone Are Silicified. The Shaley Rocks Of The Hanging Wall Fracture Zone Are Strongly Argillized. The Clays Produced By Argillization Are Kaolinite, Dickite, Illite(?…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 9 shaft symbols
- 7 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- USGS MRDS working type: Surface/Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface/Underground · work_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
- Pinson Mining Co. · Historical operator
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Pyrite
- Arsenic-bearing Pyrite
- Arsenopyrite
- Chalcopyrite
- Cinnabar
- Clay minerals
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
View all 19 reported minerals
- Pyrite
- Arsenic-bearing Pyrite
- Arsenopyrite
- Chalcopyrite
- Cinnabar
- Clay minerals
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- Dickite
- Galena
- Illite
- Iron oxide
- Kaolinite
- Muscovite
- Native Gold
- Pyrite
- Sediment
- Shale
- Sphalerite
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 (9)
- mapped adit symbols (7)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 429856
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (18)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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Documented adit evidence