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Manhattan Mine

Past Producer in Lincoln county in Nevada, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Gold, Iron, Copper, Molybdenum
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037360
MRDS ID M032052
Record type Site
Current site name Manhattan Mine
Alternate or previous names NBMG Sample Sites 1394, 1395
Related records 10246386

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.59251, 37.9594 (WGS84)
Elevation 2195
Relative position SHORT DISTANCE SOUTH OF STAMPEDE GAP

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Highland Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Caliente(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Caliente(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Dry Lake Valley(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Lincoln

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
01N 66E 08 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ON SUMMIT OF THE HIGHLAND RANGE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Gold Secondary
Iron Tertiary
Copper Tertiary
Molybdenum Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Malachite Ore
Molybdenite Ore
Garnet Gangue
Jasper Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Sericite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Sericitization, Argillization, Bleaching, Argillization, Bleaching

Analytical data

Result SAMPLES 1394 AND 1395 CONTAIN, RESPECTIVELY, 2 AND GREATER THAN 20 % FE, 500 AND 3000 PPM MN, 5 AND 20 PPM AG, 1000 AND PM BA, 7 AND 200 PPM CU, 100 AND 70 PPM MO, 150 AND 1000PPM B, 500 AND 1000 PPM ZN.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Skarn (Tactite)
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.59251, 37.9594
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Faulting Parallel To Contact

Ore body information

  • General form ELLIPTICAL
    Strike NE
    Dip 70SE
    Thickness 1.83M
    Length 822.96M
    Width 1188.72M

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORE BODY IS AN IRON ORE, ELLEPTICAL IN SHAPE WITH AXES 2700 & 3900 FEET. THICK GOSSANS HAVE FORMED FROM THE OXIDATION OF PYRITIC GARNET ROCK, WHICH IS ANDRADITE, OCCURING AS LARGE MASSES AND THICK IRREGULAR VEIN LIKE BODIES IN A MARBLE. MANHATTAN FISSURE 3-5 FEET WIDE IN THE ADIT

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Highlanddistrictdistrict

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Amalgamated Pioche Mines And Smelter Corp.
    First year 1932

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL CAVED SHAFTS, ADITS, SURFACE CUTS, TRENCHES, AND NUMEROUS ROADS NOT SHOWN ON MAP. SEVERAL DIFFERENT EPISODES OF DRILLING AND EXPLORATION ARE REPRESENTED, WITH MOST OF THE OLDER WORKINGS OBLITERATED BY MORE RECENT EXPLORATION ACTIVITY.

Comments on development

  • SEVERAL STAGES OF ACTIVITY AND EXPLORATION FROM 1860 TO PRESENT. A 1903 PRESS CLIPPING STATES THAT AN 8-FT LEDGE WAS OPENED ON THE 130-FT LEVEL, YIELDING ORE RUNNING 120 OZ/T AG AND 3-8 DOLLARS/ AU.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TSCHANZ, C.M., AND PAMPEYAN, E.H., 1970, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF LINCOLN CO. NEVADA. NEVADA BUR. OF MINES, BULL 73 P.

  • Deposit

    WESTGATE, L.G., AND KNOPF, A., 1932, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE PIOCHE DISTRICT, NEVADA. USGS PROF. PAPER 171 P.

  • Deposit

    HILL, J.M., 1916, NOTES ON SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN EASTERN NEVADA USGS BULL 648 P.

  • Deposit

    COUCH, B.F., CARPENTER, J.A.,1943, NEVADA'S METAL AND MINERAL PRODUCTION (1859-1940, INCLUSIVE) UNIV OF NEVADA BULL 38, P. 85-89

  • Deposit

    SMITH, P. AND BENTZ, J., 1983, FIELD EXAMINATION REPORT, 9/20/83.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SKARN HAS RESULTED FROM INTRUSION OF QUARTZ MONZONITE, BLEACHED AND ARGILLICALLY ALTERED ON EXPOSED SURFACES. MUCH OF THE INTRUSIVE WAS LATER SHATTERED AND RECEMENTED WITH ANHEDRAL MILKY-GREY QUARTZ, PROBABLY DURING EMPLACEMENT OF QUARTZ VEINS. THE SKARN HAS BEEN HYDROTHERMALLY ALTERED TO AN FE-MN GOSSAN FROM POORLY FORMED ANDRADITE AND PYRITE CRYSTALS. THE GOSSAN BODY IS CUT BY MASSIVE WHITE QUARTZ VEINS WHICH ARE PROMINENT ON THE SURFACE AND TRACEABLE FOR HUNDREDS OF FEET. THE VEINS ARE GENERALLY VERTICAL WITH EASTERLY TREND COMPOSED OF RANDOMLY ORIENTED QUARTZ STRINGERS. OTHER QUARTZ VEINS STRIKE N60E AND DIP STEEPLY SE. SOME VEINS ARE UP TO 5 FT THICK AND ARE INTERSPERSED WITH HEMATITE-STAINED JASPER. VEINS ARE COMPOSED OF MASSIVE TO SUBHEDRAL QUARTZ CRYSTALS. MALACHITE-STAINED QUARTZ IN FLOAT. COCKSCOMB QUARTZ LINES CAVITIES. THE VEINS CARRY CRYSTALS AND MASSIVE CLOTS OF OXIDIZED PYRITE WHICH ARE SLIGHTLY MAGNETIC,(INTERGROWN PYRRMOTITE ?, MAGNETITE?) AND MOLYBDENITE/GALENA.
Deposit QUARTZ VEINS ARE SHATTERED ALMOST TO THE POINT OF BRECCIATION. THE SKARN ZONE HAS AN ABUNDANCE OF SERICITE INTERGROWN WITH THE OXIDIZED ANDRADITE GIVING THE APPEARANCE OF A SCHIST. LOCALLY, FAULTING PARALLELS CONTACT BETWEEN INTRUSIVE AND QUARTZ VEINS. LIMONITIC "JASPER" WAS NOTED IN FLOAT. THE QUARTZ VEINLETS HAVE AN ABUNDANCE OF OPEN SPACE, SUGGESTING SHALLOW DEPTH OF EMPLACEMENT. LATE-STAGE BLUISH WHITE SILICA COATS GOSSAN. FEW OUTCROPS ARE EXPOSED, WITH MOST SLOPES COVERED BY PLANT GROWTH AND SOIL.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1979 Harner, Joy L. (Roberts, Ralph J.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-SEP-1984 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) U.S. Geological Survey

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