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White Top Mine

Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodity Clay
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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. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046766
MRDS ID M241973
Record type Site
Current site name White Top Mine
Alternate or previous names White Top No. 1 and No. 2 Claims, Nikolaus Sheroid Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.5937, 37.34495 (WGS84)
Elevation 1981

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tule Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

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

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Death Valley-Lower Amargosa(hydrologic unit)

Northern Mojave(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(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 007S 040E 07 CENTER OF W2 OF W2 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ACCESSIBLE BY 16.8 MILES OF MAINTAINED ROAD EXTENDING SW FROM NEVADA HIGHWAY 3 AT LIDA. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Clay Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ORE IS USED IN SHEROID, A BRAND OF JOINT CEMENT FOR DRY-WALL CONSTRUCTION. ORE IS YELLOWISH-GRAY TO VERY PALE ORANGE, FINE-GRAINED, SHEARED, HAVING A MICACEOUS APPEARANCE. IT CONSISTS OF NEARLY EQUAL AMOUNTS OF SERICITE AND CHLORITE WITH SPARSE TO MODERATE AMOUNTS OF QUARTZ AND CALCITE

Materials information

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

Alteration

  • (Local) There Is A 225-Ft Wide Zone Of Hydrothermal Alteration Trending N-S

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.5937, 37.34495
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Faults

Ore body information

  • Length 152.4M
    Width 68.58M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Zone Of Hydrothermal Alteration

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1958
Discoverer Teddy Groves

Mining district

District name Sylvania (Green Mountain) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Leased To Minerals, Pigments And Metals Division Of Pfizer, Inc.
  • Type Owner
    Owner James Nikolaus
    First year 1964
    Last year 1975

Comments on the workings information

  • OPEN PIT MINE AT CREST OF RIDGE

Comments on development

  • ORE IS TRUCKED TO PFIZER'S PROCESSING PLANT AT VICTORVILLE CALIFORNIA. THE OPEN-PIT MINE IS OPERATED INTERMITTENTLY TO MEET THEIR TONNAGE REQUIREMENTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PAPKE, K.G., 1975, P. 52-54

  • Production

    PAPKE, K.G., 1975, P. 52.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE ZONE IS A N-S TRENDING ZONE OF HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION ALONG RIDGE CREST, WITH A FAULT CONTACT ON WEST SIDE SEPARATING ORE FROM PARTLY ALTERED ROCK GRADING TO FRESH QUARTZ MONZONITE. ON EAST SIDE OF ORE ZONE, ABOUT 25 FT OF PARTLY ALTERED MATERIAL SEPARATES FRESH QUARTZ MONZONITE FROM ORE.

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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