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Nevada Wonder Mine

Producer in Churchill county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Molybdenum, Lead, Zinc
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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. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Geologic structures
  13. Ore body information
  14. Controls for ore emplacement
  15. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  16. Mining district
  17. Land status
  18. Ownership information
  19. Reserves and resources
  20. Workings at the site
  21. Links to other databases
  22. Bibliographic references
  23. General comments
  24. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10047712
MRDS ID M243137
Record type Site
Current site name Nevada Wonder Mine
Alternate or previous names Wonder Mine, NBMG Sample Sites 3802, 3803

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.05318, 39.44935 (WGS84)
Elevation 1890

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Churchill(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Wonder Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Fallon(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Reno(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Dixie Valley(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Churchill

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 018N 035E 04 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • NE SIDE OF WONDER MOUNTAIN ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Tertiary
Molybdenum Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Argentite Ore
Cerargyrite Ore
Stephanite Ore
Wulfenite Ore
Fluorite Gangue
Kaolin Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Sericite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification

Analytical data

Result SAMPLE 3802 CHIPPED FROM VEIN WITH STRINGERS OF QUARTZ AND SULFIDES, CONTAINS 3% FE, 0.07% MG, 0.05% TI, 700 PPM MN, 1500 PPM AG, 50 PPM AG, 50 PPM AU, 15 PPM B, 150 PPM BA, 5 PPM BE, 20 PPM BI, 30 PPM CR, 300 PPM CU, 300 PPM LA, 50 PPM MO, 10 PPM NI, 200 PPM PB, 100 PPM SB, 20 PPM V, 30 PPM ZR. SAMPLE 3803, A GRAB FROM DUMP OF QUARTZ VEIN AND BRECCIA WITH SULFIDES CONTAINS 0.7% FE, 0.03% MG, 0.05% TI, 30 PPM MN, 100 PPM AG, 10 PPM B, 150 PPM BA, 1.5 PPM BE, 2000 PPM CU, 100 MO, 700 PPM PB, 1500 PPM ZN, 30 PPM ZR.

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 150
USGS model code 25c
Deposit model name Epithermal vein, Comstock
Mark3 model number 16

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Dacite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.05318, 39.44935
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Fissures And Shear Zones

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 25 W
    Dip 75 E
    Length 1609.3M
    Width 12.19M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Contact Of Rhyolite And Dacite; Fissures And Shear Zones

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Discovery year 1906
Discoverer T.L. Stroud

Mining district

District name Wonder District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Belmont Resources Inc., Tom Nimsic, Manager, Lessees, Of Vancouver
    First year 1986
  • Type Owner
    Owner Frank Lewis, - Owner Of Patented Claims And Some Unpatented.
    Home office 120 Greenridge Dr., Reno Nv 89509
    First year 1986

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1981
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Gold Au 0.536 g/mt Gold Major 1981
    Silver Ag 68.33 g/mt Silver Major 1981

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • NORTHERN MINER 9/17/81

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 19311.6M
    Overall depth 609.6M

Comments on the workings information

  • 2 VERTICAL SHAFTS, MANY SUBSHAFTS, WINZES; OPEN PIT HEAP LEACH FACILITY, MILL

Comments on development

  • AREA EXPLORED BY SILVER STRIKE RESOURCES IN 1981 WHO REPORTED 21 DRILL HOLES TOTALLING 2370 FT ON A ZONE WITH A STRIKE LENGTH OF 1550 FT AND DEPTH OF 250 FT. AT THAT TIME, INDICATED RESERVES WERE CALCULATED AT 731780 TONS OF 0.019 OZ/T AU, 2.42 OZ/T AG WITH AN ADDITIONAL 78000 TONS AT 0.014 OZ/T AU AND 1.59 OZ/T AG AND 0.019 OZ/T AU, 3.12 OZ/T AG ON 2 DUMPS. FEASIBILITY STUDY WAS BEING PLANNED (1981)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NBMG BULL 83, 1974, P. 88-90

  • Deposit

    SCHRADER, F.C., 1947, REPORT ON THE CARSON SINK AREA, P. 46-59

  • Deposit

    SCHILLING, J. 1962 B, NBMG REPT 2

  • Deposit

    VANDERBURG, 1940, USBM I.C. 7093, P. 54-57

  • Deposit

    SHAMBERGER, H.A., 1974, HISTORIC MINING CAMPS OF NEVADA-WONDER; NEV. HIST. PRESS

  • Deposit

    QUADE, JACK, NBMG FIELD EXAMINATION AND SAMPLE ANALYSES.

  • Deposit

    BURGESS, J.A., 1917, THE HALOGEN SALTS AT WONDER, NEV; ECON. GEOL. VOL 12, PP. 589-593.

  • Deposit

    NORTHERN MINER, 9/17/81.

  • Production

    COUCH & CARPENTER P. 26.

  • Reserve-Resource

    PAY DIRT, MARCH, 1984

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NEVADA WONDER VEIN LIES PARTLY ON THE CONTACT BETWEEN RHYOLITE AND INTRUSIVE DACITE, AND PARTLY WITHIN THE RHYOLITE. VEIN CONSISTS OF QUARTZ, CRUDELY BANDED WITH FELDSPAR (ADULARIA). ORE DEPOSITS OCCURRED AS TABULAR SILICEOUS VEINS IN FISSURES AND SHEAR ZONES LARGELY IN THE QUARTZ LATITE TO RHYOLITE EXTRUSIVES. THE VEINS OR SILICIFIED WALLROCK ADJACENT TO THEM FORMED PROMINENT OUTCROPS. THE VEINS, UP TO 40 FT WIDE ARE USUALLY SEPARATED FROM THE WALLROCK BY A TABULAR SHEET OF GOUGE FROM LESS THAN AN INCH TO SEVERAL FEET WIDE. LOCALLY THE GOUGE IS WELL-BANDED AND MINERALIZED AND CONSTITUTES GOOD ORE. NEVADA WONDER VEIN EXTENDED TO A DEPTH OF OVER 2000 FT. BEST VALVES OCCURRED IN HANGING WALLSIDE OF THE VEIN

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1980 Flynn, Patricia D. (Tingley, J. V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-NOV-1986 Lapointe, D.D. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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