Pride of the Mountain Mine

Past Producer in Humboldt county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper
Sections on this page
  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. Mineral occurrence model information
  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 10043970
MRDS ID M231283
Record type Site
Current site name Pride of the Mountain Mine
Alternate or previous names Pride of the West Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.77903, 40.98322 (WGS84)
Elevation 1341

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Humboldt(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Winnemucca West(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Winnemucca(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Winnemucca(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 Humboldt

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 036N 037E 23 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • NW PT. SEC 23; S. SLOPE WINNEMUCCA MTN.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Lead Secondary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result $40 TO $100/TON IN AU AND IN EARLY DAYS

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 Metamorphic Rock > Hornfels
    Rock unit name Winnemucca Formation
    Rock description Winnemucca Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Slate
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.77903, 40.98322

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike NW
    Dip NE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1863
Year of first production 1868

Mining district

District name Winnemucca Mountain

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WILLDEN, R., 1964, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF HUMBOLDT CO., NEV.; NEV. BUREAU OF MINES BULL. 59

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, W., 1915, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE NATIONAL MINING DISTRICT, NEVADA; U.S.G.S. BULL. 601

  • Deposit

    FERGUSON, H. G., MULLER, S. W., ROBERTS, R. J., GEOLOGY OF THE WINNEMUCCA WUAD.,. NEV.; G.W.-11

  • Production

    WILLDEN, R., 1964

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MINE WAS FIRST WORKED IN 1868, AND WAS WORKED THROUGH 1877. THE FIRST ORE WAS SHIPPED TO SAN FRANCISCO, BUT LATER ORE WAS TREATED BY STAMPING, ROASTING AND AMALGAMATION IN THE HUMBOLDT REDUCTION WORKS AT WINNEMUCCA. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1981 La Pointe, D. D. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-SEP-1994 Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references

Authoritative Nevada resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.