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Crowning Glory Mine

Past Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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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. Alteration
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046784
MRDS ID M241992
Record type Site
Current site name Crowning Glory Mine
Alternate or previous names Part of the Blair Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.70871, 37.79633 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 50(meters)
Relative position ABOUT 5, AIRMILES N 55 W FROM TOWN OF SILVER PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Silver Peak(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 038E 01 NE Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification; Sericitization

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.70871, 37.79633
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Post-Ore Faults

Ore body information

  • General form LENSES
    Dip GENTLY NE
    Length 1609.3M
    Width 30.48M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1864
Discoverer Rienzi Hughes And Edward Hughes

Mining district

District name Silver Peak District (1865)

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • SPURR, J.E., (1906) P. 36.

Comments on the workings information

  • TUNNELS

Comments on development

  • TOGETHER WITH THE DRINKWATER AND WESTERN SOLDIER MINES, THE CROWNING GLORY PRODUCED PART OF THE $1,080,000. WORTH OF GOLD PRODUCTION CREDITED TO THE BLAIR GROUP PRIOR TO 1906

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SHAMBERGER, H.A., 1976, SILVER PEAK : HISTORIC MINING CAMPS OF NEVADA SERIES, NO.8 : NEVADA HISTORICAL PRESS, CARSON CITY, NEVADA.

  • Deposit

    SPURR, J.E., 1906, USGS. PROF. PAPER NO. 55

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CROWNING GLORY VEIN IS A LENS OF QUARTZ ROUGHLY CONFORMABLE TO BEDDING

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-81 La Pointe, D.D. (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.

External references

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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