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Montreal Mine

Past Producer in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Gold, Lead, Iron
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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. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037620
MRDS ID M035662
Record type Site
Current site name Montreal Mine
Alternate or previous names NBMG Sample Site # 3668 & 3669

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.38539, 38.57936 (WGS84)
Elevation 1707
Relative position APPROX. 13 MI NE OF HAWTHORNE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Kinkaid(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 032E 11 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ESTIMATE LOCATION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Secondary
Lead Secondary
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cerargyrite Ore
Chrysocolla Ore
Malachite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Hematite Gangue
Limonite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Rock unit name Excelsior Formation-Metavolcanics
    Rock description Excelsior Formation-Metavolcanics

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.38539, 38.57936
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Monzonite Cut By Rhyolite Dikes

Ore body information

  • General form STRINGERS, SML. LENSES
    Strike N30W (SHEAR)
    Dip 45NW (SHEAR)
    Thickness 0.61M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Said To Occur At Rhyolite-Granitic Contact And Along Bedding Planes

Comments on the geologic information

  • METAVOLCANICS IN CONTACT WITH PLATY, TAN-COLORED SHALE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Production years WORKED BEFORE 1923, AS THE MINE WAS REPORTED ON BY LINCOLN IN THAT YEAR.

Mining district

District name Fitting

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Charles Miller
    Home office Hawthorne, Nv.
    First year 1982

Comments on the production information

  • $1,500,000 EST. TOTAL PRODUCTION WHICH SEEMS EXCESSIVE

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 170.69M

Comments on the workings information

  • APPROX. 2 MI. OF WORKINGS, SEVERAL SHAFTS, 50 TON/DAY CYANIDE PLANT PREVIOUSLY LOCATED AT THE KINKAID SIDING. LOADING DOCK, CABINS BUT ALMOST NO ROADS. A MINOR ACCESS TO THE LOADING FACILITIES IS STILL PASSABLE.

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: PRODUCTION REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN $1,500,000, BUT THOUGHT TO BE EXCESSIVE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LINCOLN, F. C., 1923 , MINING DISTRICTS AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF NEVADA, RENO NEV. NEWSLETTER PUBL. CO., P 143

  • Deposit

    ROSS, D.C., 1961, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS IN MINERAL CO., NEVADA; NBMG BULL 58.

  • Deposit

    MONTREAL MINE, FITTING DISTRICT, MINERAL COUNTY, QUADE, JACK, NBMG #3668 & #3669 SAMPLE SITE VISIT, 5/15/89, NBMG UNPUBLISHED MINING DISTRICT FILE (TINGLEY FILES).

  • Production

    F ( 1 )

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NBMG SAMPLE # 3668 WAS TAKEN FROM THE SOUTHERN MOST ADIT WHICH INCLUDED GANGUE MINERALS OF LIMONITE, CALCITE AND POSSIBLE LEAD-SILVER OXIDES. NBMG SAMPLE # 3669 WAS TAKEN FROM QUARTZ STRINGERS AND OTHER VEIN MATERIAL ASSOCIATED WITH WORKINGS TO THE NORTH. MOST OF THE WORKINGS ARE NOT ACCESSIBLE BY ROAD. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Deposit THE DEPOSIT, AT DEPTH, WAS REPORTED TO FOLLOW A RHYOLITE-GRANITE CONTACT AND BEDDING PLANES. THE GRANITE, NOT SEEN ON THE SURFACE, WAS ALSO REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN CUT BY RHYOLITE DIKES.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1979 Fiebelkorn, J. B. (Stewart, J. H.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAY-1989 Quade, Jack U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-DEC-1991 Moyer, Lorre A. (Marcus, S.M.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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