Granite Tunnel

Past Producer in Eureka county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Gold, Lead
Sections on this page
  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. Geologic structures
  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 10044770
MRDS ID M232356
Record type Site
Current site name Granite Tunnel

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.98201, 39.49632 (WGS84)
Elevation 2195

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Eureka(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pinto Summit(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mount Hamilton(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ely(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Diamond-Monitor Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(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 Eureka

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 019N 053E 22 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UTM PRECISION 500 M

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Primary
Lead Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Hamburg Dolomite
    Rock description Hamburg Dolomite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.98201, 39.49632

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Ruby Hill Thrust Zone
Type of structure Local
Structure description Small Normal Faults Subparallel To The Jackson-Lawtonsystem, Also Served As Channelways For The Ore Fluids.

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • The Fractural Brecciated Zone About The Thrust Plane

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE IRREGULAR ORE BODIES WERE EMPLACED ALONG THE BRECCIATED UPPER THRUST ZONE OF THE RUBY HILL THRUST

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Eureka District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ROBERTS ET AL (1967) GEOLOGY & MINERAL RESOURCES OF EUREKA CO, N.B. OF M. BULL 64

  • Deposit

    U.S.B. OF M. (ELY) MILS NO 118, REF. NO. 3201100098

  • Deposit

    NOLAN T.B., (1962) THE EUREKA MINING DISTRICT, USGS PROF PAPER 406

  • Production

    NOLAN, T.B. (1962)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE BODIES REPLACE DOLOMITE ALONG UPPER THRUST ZONE WHERE ROCK IS FRACTURED AND BRECCIATED
Deposit THE PROPERTY IS LOCATED AT THE SOUTHERN END OF RUBY HILL, THE RICHEST OF THE FIVE MINERALIZED STRUCTURAL BLOCKS IN THE DISTRICT ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1980 Kirkham, Richard A. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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

External references

Authoritative Nevada resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.