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Old English Mine

Past Producer in Churchill county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper
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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. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10043734
MRDS ID M231006
Record type Site
Current site name Old English Mine
Alternate or previous names NBMG Sample Site 2649

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.89404, 39.79962 (WGS84)
Relative position 1/4 MI SOUTH OF CINNABAR HILL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Churchill(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Desert Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Carson Sink(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Reno(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Humboldt(hydrologic unit)

Humboldt(hydrologic accounting unit)

Black Rock Desert-Humboldt(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 Churchill

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 022N 027E 01 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • PREVIOUS QUAD DESIGNATION = DESERT PEAK (1951) 1:625000

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Wall Rock Is Chloritized, Fractured, Bleached, Kaolinized For 10-15 Ft Away From Shear Zone.

Analytical data

Result SAMPLE 2649, A DUMP SAMPLE OF BRECCIATED VEIN QUARTZ WITH CU OX AND FE OX, CONTAINS 5% FE, 0.03 % MG, 0.1 % CA, 0.-07 % TI, 200 PPM MN, 50 PPM AG, 700 PPM AS, 10 PPM AU, 50 PPM -B, 200 PPM BA, 10 PPM CR, 1000 PPM CU, 7 PPM MO, 5 PPM NI, 300- PPM PB, 150 PPM SB, 100 PPM V, 50 PPM W, 15 PPM ZR.

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 85
USGS model code 22c
Deposit model name Polymetallic veins
Mark3 model number 46

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.89404, 39.79962
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N15W-N30W
    Dip 30NE-40NE

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • MINE IS DEVELOPED BY A VERTICAL SHAFT AND INCLINED SHAFT ON A QUARTZ VEIN THAT STRIKES N 15 DEG W AND DIPS 28 DEG - 40 DEG NE. IT IS A SINGLE VEIN OF VARIABLE WIDTH AND ABOUT A FOOT THICK IN THE ACCESSIBLE WORKINGS. THE VEIN IN THE WALL OF THE INCLINED SHAFT CONTAINED 20 PPM SILVER AND 0.05 PPM GOLD. DUMP QUARTZ CONTAINED 50 PPM SILVER AND 4.5 PPM GOLD. (WILLDEN AND SPEED, P 67) BASIN AROUND MINE DISPLAYS MOTTLED RED AND GREEN ALTERATION (HEMATITE AND CHLORITE). EASTERN SHAFT HAS GREEN ALTE-RED METAVOLCANICS ON DUMP.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Desert District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • INCLINED SHAFT, NARROW STOPES ON VEIN; VERTICAL SHAFT TO EAST

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WILLDEN, RONALD, AND SPEED, R C, 1974, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF CHURCHILL COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL 83.

  • Deposit

    TINGLEY, J. V.,1985, FIELD EXAMINATION 2/26/85 AND SAMPLE ANALYSIS.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NARROW STOPES FOLLOW SHEAR ZONE IN SHEETED, ALTERED DIORITE. BRECCIATED QUARTZ VEIN FOLLOWS SHEAR ZONE; LOTS OF CU- OX AND FE OX ALONG ZONE AND VEIN.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1980 Flynn, Patricia Dodd Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-SEP-1985 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-SEP-1994 Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

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