The Culverwell Mine is a gold mine located in Lincoln county, Nevada at an elevation of 6,421 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 6,421 Feet (1,957 Meters)
Commodity: Gold
Lat, Long: 37.4781, -114.74500
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Culverwell Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Culverwell Mine
Secondary: Culverwell
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Tertiary: Bismuth
Tertiary: Zinc
Tertiary: Silver
Tertiary: Copper
Location
State: Nevada
County: Lincoln
District: Delamar (Ferguson) District
Land Status
Land ownership: BLM Administrative Area
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
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Workings
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Ownership
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Production
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Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Underground
Mining Method: Unknown
Year First Production: 1933
Discovery Year: 1932
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Great Basin
Mineral Deposit Model
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Orebody
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Structure
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Alterations
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Rocks
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Analytical Data
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Materials
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Comments
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References
Reference (Deposit): NV. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. BULLETIN 73, 1970, TABLE 14, P. 141
Reference (Deposit): NV. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. BULLETIN 30A, 1937, P. 68-69.
Nevada Gold
Nevada has a total of 368 distinct gold districts. Of the of those, just 36 are major producers with production and/or reserves of over 1,000,000 ounces, 49 have production and/or reserves of over 100,000 ounces, with the rest having less than 100,000 ounces. Read more: Gold Districts of Nevada.
