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Tonopah-Dividend Mining Company Property

Occurrence in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Gold
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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. Alteration
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  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. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046635
MRDS ID M241826
Record type Site
Current site name Tonopah-Dividend Mining Company Property

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.24452, 38.00355 (WGS84)
Elevation 1829
Relative position ABOUT 4.5 AIRMILES S10W FROM CENTER OF TONOPAH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Ralston-Stone Cabin 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 Esmeralda

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 002N 042E 26,27 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • 85 ACRES ADJOINING THE BROUGHER DIVIDE MINE ON THE NORTH. UTM IS TO NEAR CENTER OF CLAIM BLOCK. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Argentite Ore
Cerargyrite Ore
Stephanite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Potassic, Phyllic, Propylitic, Zoned Around Fractures And Faults

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.24452, 38.00355
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Divide (Gold Mountain) District District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Tonopah-Dividend Mining Co.; E. P. Cullinan In Tonopah, Superintendent
    First year 1923

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 259.08M
    Overall width 3.66M

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFTS 850 FT AND 400 FT DEEP; TRENCHING DONE IN 1919. CROSSCUTS ON 300 FT AND 500 FT LEVELS

Comments on development

  • ACTIVE IN 1923

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LINCOLN, F.C., 1923

  • Deposit

    NBMG REPORT 33.

  • Deposit

    NBMG BULL 92, P. 121-128.

  • Deposit

    WEE, W.H., ED., 1920, THE MINES HANDBOOK, VOL. XIV. P. 1164

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DIVIDE EXTENSION VEIN INTERSECTS AN E-W VEIN TO FORM A LARGE FRACTURED AREA OF RICH ORE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1982 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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