USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Lander County
Victorine Gold Mine
Unconfirmed Gold Mixed Underground / Surface 8 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Lander
- Mining district
- Kingston District
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Victorine Gold Project, Sumich Deposit, Bimetallic Mine, Phoenician, Kingston Mine, Klondike Mine
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Deposit: Gold- and silver-bearing quartz veins were discovered at this site during the early 1860's. Production has been erratic, with peaks during 1865-71 and 1937-41. The ore occurs As pockets and veinlike masses of quartz along a silicified zone in …
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 8 adit symbols
- Adit : Millett Ranch , 1956
- Adit : Brewer Canyon , 1988
View individual source records (4)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Surface-Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=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: Producer
Operators / organizations
- Goldrea Resources Corp. · Historical operator · 2004
- Stirrup Creek Gold, Ltd. · Historical operator · 2004
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Galena
- Pyrite
- Sphalerite
- Argentite
- Chalcopyrite
- Gold
- Silver
- Tetrahedrite
View all 19 reported minerals
- Galena
- Pyrite
- Sphalerite
- Argentite
- Chalcopyrite
- Gold
- Silver
- Tetrahedrite
- Acanthite
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- Galena
- Limestone
- Native Gold
- Pyrite
- Sphalerite
- Tetrahedrite Subgroup
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 (8)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 430692
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (11)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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