Silver King Mine

Past Producer in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, 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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046123
MRDS ID M234088
Record type Site
Current site name Silver King Mine
Alternate or previous names Gold Hill Claims, NBMG Sample Site # 3672 & #3673

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.37678, 38.56853 (WGS84)
Relative position 2 MI. NW OF ACME

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Kinkaid(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Fish Lake-Soda Spring 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 Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 008N 032E 11,12 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UTM IS TO CENTER OF AREA WHERE PROSPECT IS PROBABLY LOCATED, UTM IS +/- 1000M

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Lead Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) Alluvium, undifferentiated

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE DUMPS CONSIST OF VUGGY, LIMONITE-RICH QUARTZ VEINS AND BRECCIA.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Production years PRIOR TO 1923, BUT NO RECENT ACTIVITY AT EITHER THESE OR THE MONTREAL WORKINGS.

Mining district

District name Fitting District

Comments on the production information

  • $500,000, PROBABLY TOO HIGH

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL SHAFTS, ADITS, PROSPECTS AND LOADING FACILITIES. WORKINGS AT DEPTH WERE REPORTED TO HAVE FOLLOWED A CONTACT OF RHYOLITE AND GRANITE, NEITHER OF WHICH WERE SEEN AT THE SURFACE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ROSS, D.C., 1961, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA; NBMG BULL. 58

  • Deposit

    LINCOLN, 1923, MINING DISTRICTS AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF NEVADA; NEVADA NEWSLETTER PUBLISHING CO.

  • Deposit

    SILVER KING MINE, FITTING DISTRICT, MINERAL COUNTY, QUADE, JACK NBMG #3672 & #3673 SAMPLE SITE VISIT, 5/15/89, NBMG UNPUBLISHED MINING DISTRICT FILE (TINGLEY FILES).

  • Production

    ROSS, 1961, TABLE 6.2

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NORTH TRENDING QUARTZ VEIN SYSTEM.
Deposit NBMG SAMPLE #3672 WAS TAKEN FROM THE DUMPS ASSOCIATED WITH THE SECOND SHAFT WHILE SAMPLE #3673 WAS TAKEN FROM THE ORE BIN. THE SAMPLES VARIED ONLY IN THAT THE SECOND SAMPLE HAD CONSIDERABLE MANGANESE COATINGS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1981 Royse, Sue E. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-MAY-1989 Quade, Jack U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-DEC-1991 Moyer, Lorre A. (Marcus, S.M.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Nevada resources

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