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Lucky Hobo Mine and Vicinity. Mine and Vicinity.

Past Producer in Lincoln county in Nevada, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Zinc, Gold, Arsenic, Iron, Manganese, Antimony
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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. 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 10037355
MRDS ID M032038
Record type Site
Current site name Lucky Hobo Mine and Vicinity. Mine and Vicinity.
Related records 10222663

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.52223, 37.69275 (WGS84)
Elevation 1768
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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Lincoln

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
03S 67E 07,18 SE (07); NE (18) Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • MAIN WORKINGS ARE ON SMALL RIDGECREST AND IN SMALL DRAW TO SOUTH. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Zinc Critical Secondary
Gold Secondary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary
Iron Tertiary
Manganese Critical Tertiary
Antimony Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Beudantite Ore
Descloizite Ore
Jarosite Ore
Mimetite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Leaching,Silicification

Analytical data

Result SAMPLES 122, 123, 124 CONTAIN, RESPECTIVELY, GREATERTHAN 20, 10, 20% FE
Result 5000, 200, 200 PPM MN
Result 30, 2000, 20 PPM AG
Result 5000, 1000, 3000 PPM AS
Result 0, 0, 500 PPM B
Result 150, 300, 200 PPM BA
Result 200, 300, 100 PPM CU
Result 20 000, GREATER THAN 20 000, GREATER THAN 20 000 PPM PB
Result 500, 2000, 200 PPM SB, 0, 30, 100 PPM SN
Result 0, 300, 200 PPM SR
Result 2000, 300, 1000 PPM ZN.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.52223, 37.69275
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fractures; Junction Of 2 Faults

Comments on the geologic information

  • FAULT CONTACT BETWEEN CAMBRIAN CALCITE AND LIMESTONE CONTAINS INCLINED SHAFT AND STOPE. FAULT ZONE STRIKES NZOE, DIPS 45-50 NW. BLOCKY FRACTURED OUTCROP OF MEDIUM-TO THICK- BEDDED WHITE COARSELY CRYSTALLINE MARBLE FORMS THE HANGING WALL AT THE WORKINGS. THE FAULT ZONE IS HIGHLY BRECCIATED AND CONSISTS OF PEBBLE-SIZED FRAGMENTS OF QUARTZITE AND LIMESTONE,SUS PENDED IN A MATRIX OF CLAY, CALCITE, AND ABUNDANT FE AND MN OXIDES. THE FAULT ZONE IS WELL-MARKED BY ABUNDANT FE AND MN OXIDES AND CONTAINS JASPERY DARK BROWN GOSSAN AND EARTHY MATERIAL. SOME BRIGHT YELLOW AND ORANGE OXIDES ARE ALSO PRESENT IN THE ZONE. ALTERED LIMESTONE BOULDERS ON THE DUMP ARE REPLACED BY JASPER AND OTHERWISE SILICIFIED. SOME OXIDIZED PYRITE OCCURS IN THE WALLROCKS AND BRECCIA ZONE. SULFIDE-BEARING QUARTZ VEIN MATERIAL WAS SAMPLED. DRILL CORE IN AREA CONSISTS OF MARBELIZED, BLEACHED LIMESTONE. SOME COARSE WHITE NEEDLES OF CERUSSITE WERE FOUND ON FRACTUR SURFACES IN SOME OF THE MARBLE CORE. SOME OF THE LIMESTONE
  • IS EPIDOTIZED OR SILICATED TO A WEAK LIGHT GREEN SKARN. REMAINING CORE CONSISTS OF SILTY QUARTZITE AND A DARK GREEN DIORITIC (OR GABBROIC) DIKE ROCK, WHICH, ALTHOUGH IR CONTAINS NO SULFIDES, IS SLIGHTLY EPIDOTIZED OR CHLORITIZED.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Chief

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the production information

  • A SMALL AMOUNT OF ORE WAS PRODUCED IN 1928.

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL SHALLOW SHAFTS AND PITS, ONE DEEP SHAFT. RIDGECREST WORKINGS CONSIST OF PARTIALLY CAVED INCLINED SHAFT WITH CONNECTING STOPE. MAIN SHAFT HAS REMAINS OF HEADFRAME AND TRACK (1983).

Comments on development

  • SMALL BASIN AREA JUST NORTH OF THESE MINES WAS DRILLED BY TEXAS GULF INTERNATIONAL IN ABOUT 1981. THIS IS THE MAIN SITE OF MOST RECENT EXPLORATION ACTIVITY IN THE DISTRICT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    CALLAGHAN, E., 1936, UNR BULL 30, NO. 2, P. 29.

  • 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 IS FOUND IN FE-STAINED, BRECCIATED QUARTZITE AND LIMESTONE, REHEALED WITH COMB QUARTZ, LOCATED BETWEEN INTERSECTING FAULTS. ORE IS A MASSIVE GREENISH TO BROWNISH VUGGY AGGREGATE OF ARSENOPYRITE REPLACED BY SCORODITE, IN TURN REPLACED BY A BROWN MICACEOUS MINERAL.

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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