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Dover and Green Talc

Past Producer in Mineral 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. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037410
MRDS ID M035082
Record type Site
Current site name Dover and Green Talc
Alternate or previous names Donnelly Andalusite Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.50624, 38.61881 (WGS84)
Elevation 1646
Relative position 7 MI EAST OF SOUTH END WALKER LAKE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hawthorne East(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Walker Lake(hydrologic unit)

Walker(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Lahontan(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 Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 008N 031E 27 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • 5 MILES EAST OF THORNE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Andalusite Ore
Corundum Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Hematite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metavolcanic Rock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.50624, 38.61881
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Dover Mine, Mineralized Zone Occurs On North Side Of A N 70 E Trending Fault

Ore body information

  • Thickness 3.66M
    Length 91.44M
    Width 18.29M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Deposits Are Within A Wedge Of Rock That Is More Fractured And Altered Than Adjoining Rock

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Production years 1936 - 1939

Mining district

District name Fitting

Comments on the production information

  • GREEN TALC MINE BELONGS TO MRS. ESTHER REA

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 17.07M
    Overall depth 15.24M

Comments on the workings information

  • AREA OF REPLACEMENT AS LARGE AS 200 BY 400 FEET. DOVER MINE CONSISTS OF A GLORY HOLE & SHAFT, SHORT ADIT, SEVERAL TRENCHES. GREEN TALC CONSISTS OF TWO OPEN PITS, TWO SHORT ADITS AND NUMEROUS PROSPECT PITS. GREEN TALC IS EAST-NORTHEAST OF DOVER MINE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ROSS D. C., 1937 , GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF MINERAL COUNTY, NEV. NEV. BUR. OF MINES BULL 58

  • Deposit

    VANDERBURG W. O., 1937 , RECON OF MINING DIST. IN MINERAL COUNTY, NEV., INFO. CIRCULAR

  • Deposit

    ARCHBOLD N. L., 1966 , INDUSTRIAL MINERAL DEPOSITS OF MINERAL CO., NEV., NEV. BUREAU OF MINES REPORT 14

  • Production

    VANDERBURG ( 1937 P. 30 )

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ANDALUSITE OCCURS AS FINE DISSEMINATIONS AND SCATTERED BLEBS ASSOCIATED WITH WHITE TO GREEN SERICITIC BODIES AND ROCK CUT BY QTZ. VEINLETS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1978 Fiebelkorn, J. B. (Stewart, J. H.) U.S. Geological Survey

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