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Tonopah Belmont Development Co.

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Gold, Copper, Arsenic
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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. Geologic structures
  13. Ore body information
  14. Controls for ore emplacement
  15. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  16. Mining district
  17. Land status
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10044372
MRDS ID M231780
Record type Site
Current site name Tonopah Belmont Development Co.
Alternate or previous names Belmont Shaft, Acenith Shaftdesert Queen Shaft

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.21731, 38.07133 (WGS84)
Elevation 1917
Relative position NORTH SLOPE OF RUSHTON HILL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Southern Big Smoky Valley(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 003N 042E 36 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • PROPERTY CONSIST OF EIGHT CLAIMS.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Secondary
Copper Tertiary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Argentite Ore
Galena Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification Along Faults

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 150
USGS model code 25c
Deposit model name Epithermal vein, Comstock
Mark3 model number 16

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Rock unit name Mizpah Trachyte;West End Rhyolite;Tonopah Formation
    Rock description Mizpah Trachyte;West End Rhyolite;Tonopah Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Tertiary
    Chronological age 20.4

Nearby scientific data

(1) Alluvium, undifferentiated
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Halifax Fault (N-S, 35-40e), Mizpah Fault, Belmont Fault, Tesuro Fault

Ore body information

  • Strike E-W
    Dip 80N TO NEAR VERTICAL
    Thickness 2.13M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault Control

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Tonopah District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF THE 1718 FT BELMONT SHAFT; CONNECTIONS TO THE DESERT QUEEN SHAFT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SPURR, J.E., 1905 GEOLOGY OF THE TONOPAH MINING DISTRICT: USGS PROF. PAPER 42, P. 193-194

  • Deposit

    CARPENTER, JA, ET AL, 1953, HISTORY OF FIFTY YEARS OF MINING AT TONOPAH: NBMG BULL. 51

  • Deposit

    NOLAN, TB, 1935, UNDERGROUND GEOL. OF THE TONOPAH MIN. DIST.: NBMG BULL. 23

  • Deposit

    NBMG BULL 92, P.114

  • Production

    CARPENTER, ET AL, 1953, P. 149

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE COMPANY WAS ORGANIZED IN 1902. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Deposit BELMONT VEIN, SHAFT VEIN, LILLIE BELLE VEIN, FAVORITE VEIN, IOU VEINBURRO VEIN

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1980 Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAY-1982 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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