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Lucky Deposit

Past Producer in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Copper, Lead, Gold, Iron, Manganese
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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. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037247
MRDS ID M031207
Record type Site
Current site name Lucky Deposit
Related records 10296278

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.58892, 39.69743 (WGS84)
Elevation 2256
Relative position SOUTH OF THE MOUTH OF SILVER CREEK, ABOUT 0.5 MILE FROM OLD TOWN OF AURUM

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Silver Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Kern Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ely(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Spring-Steptoe Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada White Pine

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 21N 65E 13,14 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UTM IS TO ONE OF MANY WORKINGS. THE 9 CLAIMS ARE IN 2 GROUPS ABOUT 0.75 MILE APART.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Copper Primary
Lead Primary
Gold Secondary
Iron Tertiary
Manganese Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Copper Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Strong Oxidation

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.58892, 39.69743
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description E Dipping Fault And Fissures

Ore body information

  • Strike N
    Dip E STEEP TO VERTICAL

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Parallel To Bedding & Fissures Near Fault Contact With Precambrian Quartzite.

Comments on the geologic information

  • LENSES ARE 1-2 FEET WIDE ALONG THE FISSURES, AND ALONG THE BEDDING NEAR THE FISSURES.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Aurum (Silver Canyon Subdistrict)

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Lucky Deposit Mining Co.
    First year 1922

Comments on the production information

  • ORE CONTAINED 40-60 OZ AG PER TON

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 15.24M

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO IRREGULAR TUNNELS WHICH ATTAIN A MAXIMUM DEPTH OF 50 FEET CONSTITUTE THE DEVELOPMENT

Comments on development

  • DEVELOPMENT WAS UNDER WAY IN 1913. LUCKY DEPOSIT TOGETHER WITH SIEGEL MINE PRODUCED MORE SILVER THAN ANY OTHER OF THE AURUM DISTRICT MINES UP UNTIL 1916. SHIPMENTS MADE IN 1914,1937

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HILL, JAMES M, 1916 NOTES ON SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN EASTERN NEVADA, US GEO. BULL. 648

  • Deposit

    HOSE, R. K., BLAKE, M. C. JR., AND SMITH, R., 1976, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF WHITE PINE COUNTY, NEV. BUREAU OF MINES, BULL. 85

  • Deposit

    MACVICHIE, DUNCAN, 1915, NBMG FILE 322, ITEM 2.

  • Deposit

    NBMG CLIPPINGS FILE 322; ENG AND MIN JOUR,1974; MINING RECORD, 1937.

  • Deposit

    WEED, M. H.,ED., 1922, THE MINES HANDBOOK, VOL. XV, P. 1244.

  • Deposit

    USBM, 1983, MILS DATA

  • Deposit

    TERRADATA, 1980, A MINERAL INVENTORY OF THE SCHELL RESOURCE AREA, ELY DISTRICT, NEVADA; PREPARED FOR BLM.

  • Production

    HOSE, BLAKE & SMITH, 1976

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SILVER-BEARING LEAD CARBONATE OCCURS WITH FE AND MN OXIDES IN THIN LENSES ALONG FISSURES AND TO A LESSER EXTENT ALONG BEDDING NEAR FISSURES.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1979 Giorgi, Albert John (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1984 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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