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Sandstorm Mine

Past Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Bismuth
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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. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046691
MRDS ID M241890
Record type Site
Current site name Sandstorm Mine
Alternate or previous names Sandstorm, Kruger, Stimler Fraction, Argosy, Kendall, Magnolia,, Oregon Claims, Sandstorm-Kendall Consolidated Mining Co. Property

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.22563, 37.73912 (WGS84)
Elevation 1707
Relative position ABOUT 1 MILE DUE NORTH OF PEAK OF COLUMBIA MTN.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Esmeralda

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 002S 042E 23,26 SE (23); NE (26) Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • OFF NW END OF MORENA RIDGE; 70 ACRES. UTM IS TO ONE SHAFT ON THE PROPERTY.. UTM IS TO ONE SHAFT ON THE SANDSTORM PROPERTY. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary
Copper Tertiary
Bismuth Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Alunite Gangue
Barite Gangue
Kaolinite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification, Kaolinization, Alunitization, Pyritization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
    Chronological age 21.25
    Dating method K-Ar
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
    Chronological age 21.5
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Rock unit name Sandstorm Rhyolite;Kendall Tuff
    Rock description Sandstorm Rhyolite;Kendall Tuff
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
    Chronological age 21.25
    Dating method K-Ar
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
    Chronological age 21.5
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Dacite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
    Chronological age 21.5
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
    Chronological age 21.25
    Dating method K-Ar
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
    Chronological age 21.5
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
    Chronological age 21.25
    Dating method K-Ar
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
    Chronological age 21.25
    Dating method K-Ar
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
    Chronological age 21.5
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Dacite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
    Chronological age 21.25
    Dating method K-Ar
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
    Chronological age 21.5

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.22563, 37.73912
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Faults

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR TO IRREGULAR
    Length 402.33M
    Width 15.24M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Zones Of Transverse Fissuring, Breccia-Pipe-Like Bodies; Caldera Ring Fracture Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1902
Discoverer Harry Stimler And William Marsh Of Tonopah, Grubstaked By Jim Butler And Tom Kendall
Year of first production 1904

Mining district

District name Goldfield District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Nevada Gold Co., President, Leonard Phillips, Reactivated The Co.
    First year 1981

Comments on the production information

  • SOME EARLY ORE WAS AS RICH AS $4600/TON. PRODUCTION WAS MAINLY BY LESSEES. SOME RICH ORE CONTAINED 230 OZ/TON AU

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 152.4M

Comments on the workings information

  • 130-FT SANDSTORM SHAFT INCLINED 68 DEGREES E IN 1905, WITH CROSSCUT AT 138 FT, STOPES ABOVE 50-FT. LEVEL. IN 1908, MAIN SHAFT WAS 400 FT DEEP. KENDALL SHAFT WAS 200 FT DEEP IN 1905 WITH LEVELS AT 60 AND 100 FT. MAIN SHAFT 500 FT DEEP BY 1922, WITH WINZE TO 700 FT.

Comments on development

  • CLAIMS WERE LOCATED 1902-1903. SANDSTORM AND KENDALL GOLD MINING CO'S. INC WERE INCORPORATED IN 1904. SMALL SHIPMENTS OF GOLD ORE WERE BEING MADE FROM THE SANDSTORM & KENDALL BY LATE 1904. THE TWO COMPANIES MERGED IN 1909, EACH HAVING PRODUCED OVER $400,000 IN ORE, MAINLY BY LESSEES

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SHAMBERGER, H.A., 1982, THE STORY OF GOLDFIELD; NEVADA HISTORICAL PRESS, CARSON CITY, NEVADA, 240 P.

  • Deposit

    NBMG REPORT 33, P. 77-86

  • Deposit

    NBMG REPORT 19, P. 64-65.

  • Deposit

    THE MINING RECORD NEWSPAPER, FEB. 18, 1981

  • Deposit

    WEED, W.H., ED., 1922, THE MINES HANDBOOK, VOL. XV, P. 1325.

  • Deposit

    RANSOME, F.L., 1909, USGS P.P. 66, P. 235-236.

  • Production

    SHAMBERGER, H.A., 1982, P. 193, 199.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SANDSTORM-KENDALL LEDGE IS A ZONE OF STRONGLY SILICIFIED RHYOLITE WITH PAY SHOOTS IN IRREGULAR MASSES OF SOFTER KAOLINITIC AND LIMONITIC MATERIAL. SOME IRREGULAR PIPES AND CHIMNEYS IN SILICIFIED ZONES

Reporter information

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

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