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Todd Mine

Past Producer in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Lead
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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. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Ownership information
  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 10037605
MRDS ID M035625
Record type Site
Current site name Todd Mine
Alternate or previous names Luning Consolidated Gold Mine Nbmg # 3536

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.15651, 38.57964 (WGS84)
Elevation 1676
Relative position APPROX. 5 MI. N - NE OF LUNING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Luning(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Fish Lake-Soda Spring 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 Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 008N 034E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ESTIMATE LOCATION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary
Lead Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • $20 - 40/TON GOLD AND SILVER

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Pyrite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.15651, 38.57964
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR REPLACEMENT
    Strike N 60 DEGREES E
    Dip 70 DEGREES SE

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Veining Occurs Along Fracture Zones Associated With Intense Faulting

Comments on the geologic information

  • REFER TO RECORD NO. M035626 THE WORKINGS FOLLOWED A VUGGY COPPER IRON STAINED VEIN IN THE GRANITE. SOME NEWER WORK ON THE LOWER ADIT REVEALS NEW TIMBERING. THE OLD ORE BIN IS STILL IN PLACE BELOW THESE WORKINGS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Santa Fe

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Luning Gold Mining Syndicate
    First year 1918

Comments on the production information

  • TOTAL PRODUCTION UNKNOWN

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 45.72M

Comments on the workings information

  • 150 FT. SHAFT, 550 FT. CROSSCUT - NOGAL, 100 FT. INCLINE SHAFT, STOPED AT 40 FT. LEVEL - RED

Comments on development

  • SOME OF THE WORKINGS ARE NEW BUT OLDER WORKINGS ARE BEFORE 1950'S. ; ECON.COM: SMALL

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HILL, J.M., 1915 , SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN NE CALIF. AND NW NEV. USGS BULL. 594

  • Deposit

    COUCH, CARPENTER, 1943 , NEVADA'S METAL AND MINERAL PROD. ( 1859 - 1940 ) UNIV. OF NEV. BULL., VOL. 27 , NO. 4

  • Deposit

    TELLURIDE CLAIMS, SANTE FE MINING DISTRICT,MINERAL COUNTY, QUADE SITE VISIT 4-7-89,NBMG UNPUBLISHED MINING DISTRICT FILES (TINGLEY FILES)

  • Production

    F( 2 )

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DIPPING NOGEL VEIN RANGES IN THICKNESS FROM 4 INCHES TO 2 FEET..
Deposit NOGAL VEIN: STRIKE N 60 E, DIP 70 SE, 4 INCHES TO 2 FT. THICK. RED VEIN: 1/4 MI. SOUTH OF NOGAL STRIKES N 40 W AND DIPS 50 SW SAMPLE 3536 WAS FROM THE DUMPS ASSOCIATED WITH THE UPPER WORKINGS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1979 Fiebelkorn, J. B. (Stewart, J. H.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1991 Marcus, S. (Doebrich, J.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

External references

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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