USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Washoe County
Mountain View Gold Project
Unconfirmed Gold Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Washoe
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Basin and Range type extensional faulting Shear zones; range-front fault on west side of the Granite Range. Alteration: A skarn-hornfels zone is developed adjacent to a Cretaceous age granitic intrusive body. Widespread argillic alteration …
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 5 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- 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
- Vista Gold Corp. · Historical operator · 2004
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Adularia
- Calcite
- Marcasite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Galena
- Gold
- Tennantite
View all 31 reported minerals
- Adularia
- Calcite
- Marcasite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Galena
- Gold
- Tennantite
- Adularia
- Basalt
- Calcite
- commodity:Antimony
- commodity:Arsenic
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Mercury
- commodity:Silver
- Conglomerate
- Galena
- Granodiorite
- Hornfels
- K Feldspar
- Marcasite
- Metasedimentary rock
- Metavolcanic rock
- Native Gold
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Rhyolite
- Tennantite 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 (5)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 370407
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (23)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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