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National Bank Mine

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Uranium
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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. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10044476
MRDS ID M231919
Record type Site
Current site name National Bank Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.82367, 36.89913 (WGS84)
Elevation 1158
Relative position NW EDGE OF LADD MTN.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Beatty(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Beatty(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Death Valley(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Amargosa(hydrologic unit)

Northern Mojave(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(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 Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 012S 046E 15 NW4 OF NW4 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Uranium Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Limonite Gangue

Analytical data

Result A SELECT SAMPLE CONTAINED 0.021% U308. THE BEST ORE IN 1910 ASSAYED $230 PER TON.

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) -116.82367, 36.89913
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N15E
    Dip 60W

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Along A Fault

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

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Westmoreland, Miss Best
    Home office Cleveland, Georgia.
    First year 1951

Comments on the production information

  • INTERMITTENT SMALL PRODUCTION OF ORE VARYING FROM $65 TO $463 PER TON BETWEEN 1907 AND 1909.

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF ONE BULLDOZER TRENCH, A VERTICAL SHAFT 200 FT DEEP WITH TWO LEVELS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GARSIDE, L.J., 1973, RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES IN NEVADA: NBMG, BULL. 81, P. 92

  • Deposit

    RANSOME, F.L., 1910, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE BULLFROG DISTRICT: USGS BULL. 407, P. 113

  • Deposit

    KRAL, V.E., 1951, MINERAL RESOURCES OF NYE CO.: NBMG BULL. 50, P.34.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1980 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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