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Red Metals Mine

Past Producer in Washoe county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Silver
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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. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10043877
MRDS ID M231170
Record type Site
Current site name Red Metals Mine
Alternate or previous names Copper Field Area, North View Mountain, North Mt Patent, Porcupine Or Wheeler Tunnel, Revelation Patent, Red Metal Mine, NBMG Sample Site #3333 & #4122

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.94907, 39.61156 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Washoe(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Verdi(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Reno(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Reno(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Honey-Eagle Lakes(hydrologic unit)

North Lahontan(hydrologic accounting unit)

North Lahontan(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Washoe

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 020N 018E 09,10 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bornite Ore
Chalcanthite Ore
Chalcocite Ore
Magnetite Ore
Malachite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Epidote Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Tourmaline Unknown

Alteration

  • (Local) Epidotization, Iron Oxide Alteration.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Mafic Volcanic Rock > Basalt
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff > Welded Tuff

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.94907, 39.61156
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike NE
    Dip 20SE

Comments on the geologic information

  • MILKY QUARTZ VEINS AND VEINLETS CONTAIN SPARSE REMNANTS OF THE HYPOGENE MINERALS BORNITE, PYRITE, MAGNETITE, AND CHALCOPYRITE. IRON OXIDE OCCURS AS BOXWORKS AND FRACTURE COATINGS. VEINS ARE REPORTEDLY GOLD-BEARING (HUDSON,1977). VEIN ATTITUDES ARE NOT OBVIOUS ALTHOUGH BONHAM (1969) REPORTS BOTH PARALLEL AND CROSS-CUTTING ATTITUDES. BLACK TOURMALINE OCCURS AS BRECCIA FILLINGS, VEINLETS, AND REPLACEMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE MINERALIZATION. VEINS ARE PROBABLY LATE-STAGE SKARN-RELATED. THE CONTACT METASOMATIC MINERALIZATION COULD BE RELATED TO CRETACEOUS GRANODIORITE OR JURASSIC MAGMATISM COEVAL WITH THE PEAVINE SEQUENCE VOLCANIC AND SUBVOLCANIC ROCKS. OTHER SIMILAR COPPER PROSPECTS OCCUR ON PEAVINE PEAK.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Peavine District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • SMALL OPEN PITS AND SHORT (?) ADITS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BONHAM, HF, GEOL & MIN DEP WASHOE & STOREY CO NEV, NBMG BULL 70, 1969

  • Deposit

    OVERTON, TD, MIN RES, DOUGLAS, ORMSBY, WASHOE CO, NEV NBMG BULL 46, 1947

  • Deposit

    HILL, JM, USGS BULL 594, 1915

  • Deposit

    ITEM 4, MINING DIST FILE 318 (PEAVINE DIST), UNSIGNED RPT, NBMG FILES, RENO

  • Deposit

    RED METALS MINE, PEAVINE DISTRICT, WASHOE COUNTY, GARSIDE, L.J., SAMPLE SITE VISIT 9/17/85, NBMG UNPUBLISHED MINING DISTRICT FILES (TINGLEY FILES).

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SAMPLE #3333 IS SELECT SULFIDE MATERIAL FROM A SMALL ORE PILE- PYRITE, BORNITE, QUARTZ. SAMPLE #4122 IS SELECT QUARTZ VEIN MATTER FROM PITS AND OLD ADITS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Deposit COPPER MINERALIZATION OCCURS IN LENSES OF QUARTZ AND BRECCIATED, SCHISTOSE META-ANDESITE. THE LENSES ARE PARALLEL TO THE SCHISTOSITY OF THE META-VOLCANICS. THE MAIN ORE BODY OCCURS AS OVERLAPPING LENSES IN A ZONE 200 FEET LONG AND 50 FEET DEEP, WHICH DIP 20 DEG SE (BONHAM P 80) MS 4832 SHOWS PATENTED CLAIM NAMES.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1978 Tingley, J.V. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-JUN-1989 Garside, L.J. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-DEC-1991 Moyer, Lorre A. (Marcus, S.M.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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