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Advance

Past Producer in Lincoln county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Lead, Arsenic, Copper
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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. Ownership information
  17. Production statistics
  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 10037350
MRDS ID M032033
Record type Site
Current site name Advance
Related records 10222650

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.51473, 37.69164 (WGS84)
Elevation 1798
Relative position 70 MILES N OF ALAMO

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Chief Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Caliente(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Caliente(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Meadow Valley Wash(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(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 Lincoln

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 03S 67E 18 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UTM APPROXIMATE, EXACT LOCATION UNKNOWN . IN COBALT CANYON ON N-FACING SLOPE. . IN COBALT CANYON ON N-FACING SLOPE. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1982)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Lead Secondary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary
Copper Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • OTHER ORE MINERALS NOT GIVEN IN THE LITERATURE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Beudantite Ore
Descloizite Ore
Jarosite Ore
Mimetite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result 11 SAMPLES IN 1932 ASSAYED: .3-1.9 OZ AU/TN .5-5.7 OZ AG/TN 0-1.5% PB 42.5% SOLUBLE 20.4% FE .4% LIME .8% SULFUR 8.6% AS . SAMPLE 125 (1984) CONTAINS 200 PPM MN, GREATER THAN 10000 PPM AS, 15 PPM AG, 500 PPM B, 200 PPM BA, 50 PPM BI, 100 PPM CU, 50 PPM MO, 7000 PPM PB, 500 PPM SB, 2000 PPM SR, 200 PPM ZN, 300 PPM ZR. . SAMPLE 125 (1984) CONTAINS 200 PPM MN, GREATER THAN 10000 PPM AS, 15 PPM AG, 500 PPM B, 200 PPM BA, 50 PPM BI, 100 PPM CU, 50 PPM MO, 7000 PPM PB, 500 PPM SB, 2000 PPM SR, 200 PPM ZN, 300 PPM ZR.

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.51473, 37.69164
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Minor Fractures

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR, PINCH AND SWELL
    Strike N10E AND N05W; ALSO N30E-N30W VEINS
    Dip 25-45E
    Length 12.19M
    Width 1.07M
    Depth to top 0M
  • General form TABULAR, PINCH AND SWELL
    Dip 25-45E

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fracture Intersection; Brecciation Of Quartzite.

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORE SHOOT IN N-S VEIN AT FRACTURE INTERSECTION, 40 FT. LONG, 3.5 FT WIDE, SEVERAL VEINS STRIKE N 30 W TO N 30 E . MINERALIZATION OCCURS IN GOUGE MATERIAL. AT UPPER ADIT, HOST ROCK IS ORANGE WEATHERED QUARTZITE OR SILTY SANDSTONE WHICH FORMS 0.5-2 FT THICK BEDS STRIKING N10W, DIP 35 NE. THE ROCK ON THE DUMP IS SLIGHTLY LAMINATED VITREOUS GREY (FRESH) QUARTZITE WHICH SHOWS SOME CALCITE AND QUARTZITE VEINING. THE ROCKS ARE SILICIFIED, RECRYSTALLIZED, WITH SOME SERICITE IN MATRIX. IN GENERAL, THE QUARTZITES ARE COVERED WITH ABUNDANT IRON OXIDES AND YELLOW AND GREEN OXIDES OF PERHAPS AS, PB, FE, OR OTHER. SOME OF THE ALTERED QUARTZITES CONTAIN IRON-STAINED QUARTZ- AND CALCITE-FILLED VUGS. ADITS LINE UP ALONG N- TO NE-TRENDING VEIN SYSTEMS, WHICH APPARENTLY FOLLOW THE BEDDING OF THE HOST ROCKS. THE BEDDING PLANE FRACTURES WERE APPARENTLY THE MAIN STRUCTURAL CONTROL FOR VEIN EMPLACEMENT, AS NOT MUCH BRECCIA WAS OBSERVED.. MINERALIZATION OCCURS IN GOUGE MATERIAL. AT UPPER ADIT, HOST ROCK IS
  • ORANGE WEATHERED QUARTZITE OR SILTY SANDSTONE WHICH FORMS 0.5-2 FT THICK BEDS STRIKING N10W, DIP 35 NE. THE ROCK ON THE DUMP IS SLIGHTLY LAMINATED VITREOUS GREY (FRESH) QUARTZITE WHICH SHOWS SOME CALCITE AND QUARTZITE VEINING. THE ROCKS ARE SILICIFIED, RECRYSTALLIZED, WITH SOME SERICITE IN MATRIX. IN GENERAL, THE QUARTZITES ARE COVERED WITH ABUNDANT IRON OXIDES AND YELLOW AND GREEN OXIDES OF PERHAPS AS, PB, FE, OR OTHER. SOME OF THE ALTERED QUARTZITES CONTAIN IRON-STAINED QUARTZ- AND CALCITE-FILLED VUGS. ADITS LINE UP ALONG N- TO NE-TRENDING VEIN SYSTEMS, WHICH APPARENTLY FOLLOW THE BEDDING OF THE HOST ROCKS. THE BEDDING PLANE FRACTURES WERE APPARENTLY THE MAIN STRUCTURAL CONTROL FOR VEIN EMPLACEMENT, AS NOT MUCH BRECCIA WAS OBSERVED.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1892
Discoverer Henry W. Lawrence And Patrick Sheahan

Mining district

District name Chief

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Advance Mining Co.
    First year 1907
    Last year 1909

Production statistics

  • Year 1896
    Material ORE
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Ap_Grade: ^1.078 Oz Au/Ton .8 Oz Ag/Ton 13% As
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Ore Gold Gold 30g/mt
    Ore Arsenic Arsenic 13wt-pct
    Ore Silver Silver 23g/mt
  • Year 1928
    Material ORE
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Ap_Grade: ^1.08 Oz Au, 6.6 Oz Ag/Ton
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Ore Silver Silver 186g/mt
    Major Ore Gold Gold 30g/mt

Comments on the production information

  • 1896 PRODUCTION INCLUDES OLD DEMOCRAT MINE

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 225.55M
    Overall depth 33.53M

Comments on the workings information

  • MAP OF MINE AVAILABLE IN CALLAGHAN, 1936, P. 19. DEVELOPED BY 2 LEVELS . TWO ADITS AND SEVERAL PITS. MOST OF THE ORE WAS REMOVED FROM THE UPPER ADIT STOPE WHICH EXTENDS FROM UPPER LEVEL 45 FT TO SURFACE. 2 WINZES. IN 1983, SEVERAL OPEN SSW-TRENDING ADITS ON N-FACING SLOPE, ONE SHAFT AND SEVERAL LARGE DUMPS. . TWO ADITS AND SEVERAL PITS. MOST OF THE ORE WAS REMOVED FROM THE UPPER ADIT STOPE WHICH EXTENDS FROM UPPER LEVEL 45 FT TO SURFACE. 2 WINZES. IN 1983, SEVERAL OPEN SSW-TRENDING ADITS ON N-FACING SLOPE, ONE SHAFT AND SEVERAL LARGE DUMPS.

Comments on development

  • SURVEYED FOR PATENT IN 1902. MINED IN 1934. MOST EXTENSIVE WORKINGS OF THE DISTRICT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TSCHANTZ CM & PAMPEYAN EH, 1970, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF LINCOLN COUNTY, NEV BUR MINES BULL 73

  • Deposit

    CALLAGHAN, E., 1936, GEOLOGY OF THE CHIEF DISTRICT, LINCOLN COUNTY, NEV. BULL OF NEV. NO. 26

  • Deposit

    BENTZ, J. AND SMITH, P., 1983, FIELD EXAMINATION REPORT, AUG. 17, 1983.

  • Production

    TSCHANTZ & PAMPEYAN, 1970

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE CONSISTS OF IRON-STAINED BRECCIATED QUARTZITE. ORE IS A MASSIVE GREENISH TO BROWNISH VUGGY AGGREGATE OF ARSENOPYRITE REPLACED BY SCORODITE IN TURN REPLACED BY A BROWN MICACEOUS MINERAL. THIN SEAMS OF SHATTERED QUARTZITE AND GOUGE ON LOWER LEVEL.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1980 Harner, Joy L. (Roberts, Ralph J.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1984 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) U.S. Geological Survey

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