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Gold Reed Mine

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodity 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. 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 10046751
MRDS ID M241956
Record type Site
Current site name Gold Reed Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.29394, 37.54802 (WGS84)
Elevation 1768
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position Estimated To With In 1/2 Mile

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Quartzite Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Cactus Flat(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Cactus-Sarcobatus Flats(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

DOD(Federal land areas administered by DOD)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
004S 051E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED TOWNSHIP AND RANGE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Gypsum Gangue
Kaolinite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Host Intensley Silicified, Kaolinized Pockets Locally

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.29394, 37.54802
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Complex Faulting-Forming Wedge Shaped Cavities

Ore body information

  • Length 1.52M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • In Fault Formed Wedge Shaped Cavities

Comments on the geologic information

  • GOOD GOLD VALUES HAVE BEEN OBTAINED FOR KAOLINITIC SUBSTANCE FOUND IN CAVITIES AT 100 FT LEVEL, PYRITE VALUES ARE LOW

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1904

Mining district

District name Kawich District-Also Known As The Gold Reed District

Land status

Ownership category Military Reservation

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Martel, Al And Robert
    First year 1951

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 91.44M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF 300 FT SHAFT-PRE 1900'S WORKINGS CONSIST OF CUTS AND SHALLOW TRENCHES.

Comments on development

  • FIRST LOCATIONS IN DISTRICT WERE MADE ON THIS PROPERTY

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KRAL, V.E., 1951, MINERAL RESOURCES OF NYE CO.: NBMG BULL. 50, P. 91-92

  • Deposit

    BALL, S.H., 1907, GEOL. RECONNAISSANCE SW NEV. AND E. CALIF.: USGS BULL. 308, P. 111-112

  • Deposit

    CORNWALL, H.R., 1972, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL OF SOUTHERN MYE CO.: NBMG BULL. 77, P. 38

  • Deposit

    LINCOLN, F.C., 1923, MINING DISTRICTS AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF NEVADA; NEVADA NEWS LETTER PUB. CO., RENO, NV.

  • Deposit

    YORK, B., 1935, GOLD REED PROPERTY; NBMG FILE 236, ITEM 1.

  • Deposit

    NBMG FILE 236-PRESS CLIPPINGS

  • Production

    KRAL, 1951, P. 92.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FREE GOLD AT SURFACE-AURIFEROUS PYRITE AT 150 DEPTH-SURFACE GOLD RESIDUAL WEATHERING PRODUCT OF PYRITE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-84 Hefner, M.L. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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