USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Churchill County
Mottini Mine
Unconfirmed Gold Underground
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Churchill
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Alteration: Oxidation, Siliciation; Silicification Deposit: Crushed, fissured zones along igneous contact. Footwall of vein is granodiorite;hanging wall is gray limestone and slate. Discovery year: late 1800's Deposit type: Skarn Cu Development: 300 …
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 shaft symbol
- 9 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
- Mottini, Charles · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Calcite
- Garnet
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Chalcopyrite
- Galena
- Magnetite
- Silver
View all 26 reported minerals
- Calcite
- Garnet
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Chalcopyrite
- Galena
- Magnetite
- Silver
- Calcite
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Iron
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Nickel
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Diorite
- Galena
- Garnet Group
- Limestone
- Magnetite
- Native Silver
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Slate
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 (1)
- mapped adit symbols (9)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 416579
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (18)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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