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Surprise Mine

Past Producer in Clark county in Nevada, United States with commodities Zinc, Lead
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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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037238
MRDS ID M031133
Record type Site
Current site name Surprise Mine
Related records 10197584

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.48778, 35.81778 (WGS84)
Elevation 1463
Relative position 3 MILES WEST OF GOODSPRINGS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Clark(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Goodsprings(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mesquite Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Kingman(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Ivanpah-Pahrump Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management NV)

Bureau of Land Management NV BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Clark

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
024S 058E 32 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • WEST OF FREDRICKSON MINE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Primary
Lead Secondary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.48778, 35.81778
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Breccia Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • PB - ZN ORE IS IN BRECCIA ZONE AT BASE OF BIRD SPRING FM. NEARLY PARALLEL TO THE BEDDING.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Goodsprings

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • SHIPMENT INCLUDED 10 TONS OF MIXED PB - ZN ORE WITH 25 % PB AND 15 % ZN; AND 31 TONS CONTAINING 36 % ZN. WORK DONE BY AZALIA MINING CO.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 27.43M
    Overall depth 70.1M

Comments on the workings information

  • STOPE IS 20 FEET LONG, 15 FEET HIGH AND 3 - 4 FT. WIDE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HEWETT, 1931 , GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF GOODSPRINGE QUAD. USGS PROF. PAPER 162 P. 147 .

  • Deposit

    LONGWELL, C. R., PAMPEYAN, E. H., BOWYER, B., ROBERTS, R. J., 1965 , GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF CLARK CO. NEV. BUREAU OF MINES BULL. 62 P. 197 .

  • Production

    LONGWELL ETAL 1965 - HEWETT, 1931 .

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1979 Harner, Joy L. (Roberts, Ralph J.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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