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Wonder Mine

Occurrence in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10047098
MRDS ID M242348
Record type Site
Current site name Wonder Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.31424, 37.26217 (WGS84)
Elevation 2240

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gold Point(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Last Chance Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Death Valley-Lower Amargosa(hydrologic unit)

Northern Mojave(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management NV)

Bureau of Land Management NV BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Esmeralda

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 008S 042E 07 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED AREA ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Covellite Ore
Gold Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) More Than Two Stages Of Silica Flooding.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Sylvania Pluton
    Rock description Sylvania Pluton
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.31424, 37.26217
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Tokop (Gold Mountain, Oriental Wash) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • ADIT IN ALLUNIUM.

Comments on development

  • REASONABLY NEW EQUIPMENT LYING AROUND ON SURFACE. RECENT SURFACE EXPLOTATION IN DRAINAGES TO E AND W AND ON RIDGE TO THE SOUTH (1983).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NBMG BULL 78, P. 71-72, PL. 2.

  • Deposit

    SMITH/BENTZ, 1983, FIELD EXAMINATION, NBMG, 7 MAY 83.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit QUARTZ VEIN IS VULLY, CO STAINED, CARRYS SULFIDES, FE STAINED.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1982 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

External references

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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