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White King Extension Mine

Past Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Clay, Talc-Soapstone
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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. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046765
MRDS ID M241971
Record type Site
Current site name White King Extension Mine
Alternate or previous names White King Extension Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.73342, 37.42523 (WGS84)
Elevation 2085
Relative position 3.8 MILES BY ROAD SE OF DEAN MILL JUNCTION ON STATE HIGHWAY 3.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sylvania Mountains(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Last Chance Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(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 Esmeralda

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 006S 038E 11 SE OF SE Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ABOUT 0.4 MILE EAST OF THE GATES AND KING MINES ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Clay Primary
Talc-Soapstone Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ORE IS GREENISH-GRAY, VERY FINE-GRAINED AND HOMOGENEOUS

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chlorite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Montmorillonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Sericite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification Of Dolomite Along Irregular Ne-Trending Zones; Hydrothermal Alteration Of Intrusive Rocks

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Reed Dolomite
    Rock description Reed Dolomite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.73342, 37.42523
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Faults Trending Nw, Dipping Ne

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Dip STEEPLY N
    Length 259.08M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault Zone; Contact Of Dolomite With Igneous Intrusive Rocks

Comments on the geologic information

  • THIS MINE IS ADJACENT TO THE KING MINE AND IS ALONG THE SAME STRUCTURE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1947
Discoverer J.E. King

Mining district

District name Sylvania, (Green Mountain) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • 2 PARALLEL DRIFTS; OPEN PIT; 55-FT ADIT.

Comments on development

  • 2 LESSEES WERE ACTIVE IN 1949 DRIVING PARALLEL DRIFTS. FROM 1952, THE PROPERTY WAS LEASED TO ARCHIE BRADY WHO DEVELOPED THE OPEN PIT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PAPKE, K.G., 1975, NBMG BULL. 84, P. 41-43

  • Production

    PAPKE, K.G., 1975, P. 41.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CHLORITE-RICH BODIES SEPARATE DOLOMITE FROM IGNEOUS INTRUSIVE ROCKS ALONG THE 850-FT STRIKE LENGTH OF THE CONTACT, WHICH IS IRREGULAR AND DIPS STEEPLY NORTH. ORE ON SOUTH WALL OF THE PIT CONTAINS LARGE MASSES OF UNREPLACED DOLOMITE WITH SHARP, IRREGULAR, AND FREQUENTLY SHEARED BORDERS.

Reporter information

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

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