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New Hope Claims

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10044416
MRDS ID M231832
Record type Site
Current site name New Hope Claims
Alternate or previous names New Year

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.38451, 38.363 (WGS84)
Elevation 2164
Relative position 1.05 MILES SE OF TYBO

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tybo(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Warm Springs(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Hot Creek-Railroad Valleys(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 006N 050E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED TOWNSHIP

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Epidote Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Pyroxene Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Very Slightly Oxidized

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.38451, 38.363
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Vein Cut Off By A Fault.

Ore body information

  • General form LENSES
    Length 609.6M
    Width 0.15M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Along The 2g Fault. Ore Localized By Porphyry Dikes Along The Fault

Comments on the geologic information

  • PENDANT IN GRANODIORITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Tybo District; Tybo Creek Area

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Allison, Ronald
    Home office Tonopah, Nev.
    First year 1965
  • Type Owner
    Owner Potts And Larson
    First year 1981

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 500 FT ADIT AND SEVERAL SMALLER ADITS AND PITS. 2 ADITS, STOPES, ORE BIN.

Comments on development

  • SWARBRICK ADIT LENGTHENED IN 1965 BY ALLISON

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    FERGUSON, H.G., 1933, GEOLOGY OF THE TYBO DISTRICT: NEV. BUR. OF MINES, BULL. 20, P. 59-61

  • Deposit

    TINGLEY, J.V., FIELD EXAMINATION, SEPT. 18, 1981.

  • Production

    FERGUSON, 1933, P. 60.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-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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