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Cumberland Mine

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037306
MRDS ID M031275
Record type Site
Current site name Cumberland Mine
Alternate or previous names Part of the Gold Exchange Group.
Related records 10198211

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.39252, 39.07661 (WGS84)
Elevation 2286

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hogum(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ely(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

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 White Pine

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
14N 67E Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Fluorite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.39252, 39.07661
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Faulting With Little Displacement

Ore body information

  • General form VUGS

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Sheeted Fissure Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORE ALONG FAULT ZONE WITH MANY SMALL FISSURES AND CLAY SEAMS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1872
Year of first production 1908

Mining district

District name Osceola

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Unknown
    Length 518.16M

Comments on the workings information

  • LENGTH OF WORKINGS IS APPROXIMATE. CONSISTS OF THREE TUNNELS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WEEKS, F.B., 1908, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE OSCEOLA DISTRICT, WHITE PINE CO. NEV NEV US GEO BULL 340

  • Deposit

    LINCOLN, FRANCES CHURCH, 1923, MINING DISTRICTS AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF NEVADA

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    HOSE, R.K., BLAKE, M.C. JR. AND SMITH, R-M., 1976, NBMG BULL 85.

  • Deposit

    USBM, 1983 MILS DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ADJACENT PARALLEL FISSURES FORM A SHEETED ZONE. VEIN MATERIAL CONTAINS MANY VUGS LINED WITH FLUORITE, GOLD, AND OTHER MINERALS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-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

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