Mine detail: Wonder Gold Property

Previously called 'Nevada Wonder Mine'

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Location

Lat / long: 39.44991, -118.06763

Resource(B)

Primary: Gold, Silver
Secondary: Lead, Copper
Tertiary: Iron, Manganese, Barium-Barite
Ore: Argentite, Gold, Cerargyrite, Stephanite, Wulfenite
Gangue: Quartz, Adularia, Fluorite, Limonite, Barite, Calcite, Pyrite
Orebody form: tabular
Discovery year: 1906

Production

Operation type: Surface-Underground
Deposit type: Epithermal vein; replacement
Production size: Medium
Development status: Past Producer
Production years: 1907-1942; 1980s
First production started: 1907
Last production ended: 1980

Geology

Host rock:Tuff of Elevenmile Canyon
Host type:Rhyolite,Tuff,Dacite
Structure:high-angle fault zones, The mine lies within the eastern part of the Elevenmile Canyon Caldera
Alteration processes:Three main types of hydrothermal alteration affect the rocks in the mine area: propylitic, argillic and/or sericitic (bleaching), and silicification, which is particularly prevalent along high-angle fault zones

References

MRDSW700384
DEP10310506
Reference{Deposit:: NDOM Staff, 1988, Directory of Nevada Mine Operations Active During Calendar Year 1987: Nevada Division Of Mine Inspection, 84 p.}{Deposit:: Pay Dirt, Feb, 1989}{Deposit:: NBMG Map 91}{Deposit:: NBMG OFR 90-2, 3}{Deposit:: The Mining Record. 4/29/98}{Deposit:: Economic Geology. Pages 589-593. 1917}{Deposit:: Engineering and Mining Journal, pages 289-292,1909}{Deposit:: Engineering and Mining Journal, pages 763-765. 1907}{Deposit:: Economic Geology, pages 546-549. 1918.}{Deposit:: Economic Geology, pages 224-225, 1918}{Deposit:: Economic Geology and the Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists, 14; 5, pages 427-430, 1919}{Deposit:: Isochron/West, 8, pages 31-35, 1973}{Deposit:: NBMG Map 109, 1997}{Deposit:: John, D.A., Geology of the Wonder Mountain Quadrangle, Churchill County, NV, NBMG Map 109, Text and References, 16p.}{Deposit:: Long, K.R., DeYoung, J.H., Jr., and Ludington, S.D., 1998, Significant deposits of gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc in the United States: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 90-206A, 33 p.; 98-206B. one 3.5 inch diskette.}{Deposit:: Arizuma Co. unpublished geologic map and section of the central Wonder District mine area (post-1997).}{Deposit:: Poloni, 1981, NBMG Mining District File 21, item #I25}{Deposit:: Lewis,1967, NBMG Mining District File 21, item #I4}
ReporterLaPointe, D.D, Schruben, Paul G.