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Homestake Mine

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  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 10044473
MRDS ID M231915
Record type Site
Current site name Homestake Mine
Alternate or previous names Homestake-King Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.89033, 36.9394 (WGS84)
Elevation 1548
Relative position 2.2 MILES NORTH OF BULLFROG MTN.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bullfrog Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Beatty(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Death Valley(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Cactus-Sarcobatus Flats(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Death Valley National Park(National Park)

National Park NPS(Type of land area)

NPS(Federal land areas administered by NPS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 011S 045E 36 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.89033, 36.9394
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Length 30.48M
    Width 12.19M
    Depth to top 60.96M
    Depth to bottom 121.92M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Gangue Minerals: Quartz, Calcite

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Bullfrog District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 500 FT, 63 DEG INCLINED SHAFT WITH LEVELS AT 200, 300, 400, 500 FT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    RANSOME, F.L., ET AL, 1910, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSIT OF THE BULLFROG DISTRICT: USGS BULL. 407, P. 124

  • Production

    KRAL, 1951, P. 36

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit A CONTINUATION OF THE GOLD BAR VEIN.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1981 Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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