USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Lander, Eureka County
Mill Canyon Property
Unconfirmed Gold Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Lander, Eureka
- Mining district
- Cortez District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Roberts Mountains Thrust; Cortez Window North-trending shear zones Alteration: silicification and bleaching of carbonate rock near fissure veins Commodity: Ore Materials: gold, tetrahedrite, galena, pyrite, argentite, sphalerite, chalcopyr…
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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
- Victoria Resource Corp. · Historical operator · 2004
- Victoria Resource Corp. & Bema Gold · Source-reported owner · 2004
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Calcite
- Argentite
- Arsenopyrite
- Chalcopyrite
- Galena
- Gold
- Orpiment
- Pyrite
View all 36 reported minerals
- Calcite
- Argentite
- Arsenopyrite
- Chalcopyrite
- Galena
- Gold
- Orpiment
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Realgar
- Sphalerite
- Stibnite
- Tetrahedrite
- Acanthite
- Arsenopyrite
- Calcite
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Arsenic
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Iron
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Manganese
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Galena
- Limestone
- Native Gold
- Orpiment
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Quartz-monzonite
- Realgar
- Sphalerite
- Stibnite
- Tetrahedrite Subgroup
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: 430519
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (23)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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