Champion Mine

The Champion Mine is a silver and lead mine located in Eureka county, Nevada at an elevation of 7,241 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Champion Mine

Commodity

Primary: Silver
Primary: Lead
Tertiary: Antimony
Tertiary: Iron

Location

State: Nevada
County: Eureka
District: Diamond 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

Not available

Workings

Type: Unknown

Ownership

Not available

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Vein
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1870
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
Physiographic Detail: Basin And Mountains

Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Polymetallic veins

Orebody

Form: TABULAR

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

Name: Carbonate
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Devonian

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Tetrahedrite
Ore: Galena

Comments

Comment (Location): 500 FT. S. OF SW CORNER SEC. 36, T.22N, R54E.

Comment (Development): A SMELTER WAS ERECTED AT THIS MINE IN 1873. A SMALL AMOUNT OF BULLION WAS PRODUCED AND THE PROPERTY WAS ABANDONED SHORTLY THEREAFTER.

Comment (Deposit): QUARTZ VEINS CONTAINING ARGENTIFEROUS GALENA AS POCKETS AND BUNCHES.

Comment (Geology): QUARTZ VEINS

Comment (Deposit): WORKINGS TOTAL - 500 FEET CHAMPION MINE, AN EARLY C(1870) LOCATION IN THE DIAMOND DISTRICT (WHEELER, 1872). THE ORE IS ARGENTIFEROUS GALENA IN VEINS THAT TREND N-S (IGID). A SMELTER WAS ERECTED AT THIS MINE, WHICH WAS THE PRINCIPAL PROPERTY, IN 1873; A SMALL AMOUNT OF BULLION WAS PRODUCED, WITH THE DISTRICT BEING ABANDONED SHORTLY THEREAFTER, (LINCOLN, 1923). THE ORE OCCURS AS POCKETS AND BUNCHES IN VEINS IN LS. SOME FC & SB PRESENT WITH PB CARBONATE (IGID). ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

References

Reference (Deposit): ROBERTS, R.J., ET AL, 1967, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF EUREKA COUNTY, NEVADA NBMG BULL. 67

Reference (Deposit): WHEERLER, G.M., 1872, PRELIMINARY REPORT OF EXPLORATIONS IN NEVADA AND ARIZONA, V.2,

Reference (Deposit): LINCOLN, F.C., 1923, MINING DISTRICTS AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF NEVADA.

Reference (Production): LINCOLN, F.C., 1923.

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.