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Bamberger Delamar Gold Mining Co.

Occurrence in Lincoln 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. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046493
MRDS ID M241660
Record type Site
Current site name Bamberger Delamar Gold Mining Co.
Alternate or previous names Included Delamar Mine, Magnolia Mine, April Fool Mine, Rose and Pleides Groups of Claims
Related records 10246895

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.7689, 37.46219 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 100(meters)
Relative position To Delamar Mine, One Of Many Properties

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Delamar(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Clover Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Caliente(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Dry Lake Valley(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Lincoln

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 0055;0065 064E;064E 25,26:,01 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :1982

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.7689, 37.46219
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 9.14M
    Length 4827.9M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Ore Is Related To A System Of N-S Fault Zones And E-W Cross-Dikes

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Delamar (Ferguson) District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Bamberger-Delamar Mining Co.
    First year 1902
    Last year 1909

Comments on the workings information

  • IN 1907, UNDERGROUND WORKINGS TOTALLED 35 MILES AND A GLORY HOLE WAS STARTED IN 1908 IN THE AREA AROUND THE MAIN ORE BODY. ADITS, A SERIES OF THEM 500 FT APART FROM TOP TO BOTTOM

Comments on development

  • IN 1902, THE DELAMAR PROPERTIES WERE OPTIONED TO JACOB E. AND SIMON BAMBERGER, AND THE MILL WAS REMODELED CHILEAN MILLS WERE INSTALLED, AND BOTH MINE AND MILL WERE ELECTRICALLY EQUIPPED. NEW MILL STARTED IN MAY, 1903 AND IN 1904, ABOUT 300 TPD WERE TREATED OF FREE MILLING ORE AS WELL AS 200 TPD SULFIDE ORE, IN 1906, HOG PEN INCLINED SHAFT HAD REACHED LEVEL 13 AND THE MILL WAS TREATING 350 TPD AS WELL AS 300 TPD AT THE TAILINGS PLANT. MINE CLOSED IN 1909. MINOR PRODUCTION IN 1911, 1912, 1913 WAS DERIVED FROM A CLEAN-UP OF THE MIL LBY LESSEES- ANOTHER CLEAN UP IN 1926. EQUIPMENT WAS ALL SOLD IN 1910

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ENG. AND MIN. JOUR., 1909, VOL. 87, P. 451-452.

  • Deposit

    CALLAGHAN, E., 1937, UNIV. NEV. BULL. VOL 31, NO. 5; GEOL. & MIN SER. #30A

  • Deposit

    NBMG DISTRICT FILE 167, PRESS CLIPPINGS

  • Deposit

    ENG. AND MIN. JOUR. VOL. 77, P. 725.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CONSOLIDATION COVERED 1600 ACRES ALONG THE VEIN FOR 3 MILES. ORE SHOOTS IN GOUGE MATERIAL

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-84 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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