USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Churchill County
Williams Mine
Unconfirmed Gold Underground
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Churchill
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Old Williams Mine, Senator Williams Mine
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
3/4 mile south of mouth of Florence Canyon. Structure: North-Trending Fault Alteration: Silicification Deposit: Quartz veins and gilicified zones along shear zones. Discovery year: early 1860's Deposit type: Epithermal vein, Comstock Development: O…
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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
- Former Senator John Williams Of Fallon · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Limonite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Argentite
- Cerargyrite
- Gold
- Acanthite
- Chlorargyrite
View all 15 reported minerals
- Limonite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Argentite
- Cerargyrite
- Gold
- Acanthite
- Chlorargyrite
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- Limonite
- Native Gold
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Rhyodacite
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: 60912
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (9)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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