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Landmark-Life Preserver Group

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, 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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10044528
MRDS ID M231979
Record type Site
Current site name Landmark-Life Preserver Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.78145, 37.29302 (WGS84)
Elevation 1829
Relative position 1.8 MILES NE OF TOLICHA PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tolicha Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Pahute Mesa(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(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

DOD(Federal land areas administered by DOD)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 007S 046E 36 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff > Ash-Flow Tuff
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.78145, 37.29302
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Width 3.05M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Along A N 20 E Shear Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1917

Mining district

District name Tolicha District

Land status

Ownership category Military Reservation

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Abelman, Nick
    Home office Reno, Nv
    First year 1951

Comments on the production information

  • AN ESTIMATED $750,000 OF GOLD-SILVER ORE WERE SHIPPED IN THE EARLY THIRTIES.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 762M

Comments on the workings information

  • THE LANDMARK WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 140 FT INCLINE SHAFT, CONNECTING ADIT, AND LATERALS. THE LIFE PRESERVER WORK CONSIST OF SEVERAL SHALLOW SHAFTS, ADITS AND CONNECTING WORKINGS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KRAL, V.E., 1951, MINERAL RESOURCES OF NYE CO.: NBMG BULL. 50, P. 167-168

Reporter information

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

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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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