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Crescent 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. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037311
MRDS ID M031283
Record type Site
Current site name Crescent Mine
Alternate or previous names Part of Gold Exchange Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.39363, 39.08855 (WGS84)

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

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.39363, 39.08855
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Many Vertical To Steep Fault Planes With Little Displacement

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fissure Zones

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Osceola

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    NBMG DISTRICT FILE 335; CLIPPING FROM THE MINING RECORD, 1926, MENTIONS THE CRESCENT MINE.

  • Deposit

    USBM, 1983, MILS DATA.

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

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

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit GOLD IS CONCENTRATED IN FISSURE VEINS OF VARYING WIDTH AND IS ALSO DISSEMINATED IN THE BEDS OF FINELY SHATTERED QUARTZITE.

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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Authoritative Nevada resources

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