April Mine

Past Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodity Gold
Sections on this page
  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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046787
MRDS ID M241995
Record type Site
Current site name April Mine
Alternate or previous names Part of Mohawk-Alpine Group In 1904, Part of Pittsburg Silver Peak Gold Mining Co. Property, 1906-1936

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.69953, 37.79105 (WGS84)
Elevation 2073
Location accuracy 250(meters)
Relative position 4.5 AIRMILES N55W FROM SILVER PEAK; 0 .75 MILES NE OF TARANTULA SPRINGS.

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)

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 002S 039E 06 SW Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • 0.3 MILE SW OF MAIN MARY MINE PORTAL ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Orthoclase Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.69953, 37.79105

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENSES

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Silver Peak District (1865);(A.K.A. Red Mountain, Mineral Ridge,Argentite)

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • MINE PRODUCED 200 TONS OF FREE-MILLING GOLD ORE WORKED IN 1892-1893 AT CHIATOVICH'S MILL AT SILVER PEAK

Comments on development

  • 200 TONS OF FREE-MILLING GOLD ORE WAS WORKED IN 1892-93 AT CHIATOVICH'S MILL AT SILVER PEAK. CLAIM WAS PATENTED TO THE MOHAWK-ALPINE MINING CO. IN ABOUT 1905, AND WAS AMONG THE CLAIMS SOLD TO THE PITTSBURG SILVER PEAK GOLD MINING CO. IN 1906, WHO MINED THE PROPERTY FROM 1906-1915. IT WAS INCLUDED IN THE PROPERTIES MINED BY BLACK MAMMOTH IN 1929-1941.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    ALBERS, J.P., STEWART, J.H., 1972, NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, BULL. 78, P. 71.

  • Production

    SPURR, J.E. (1906) P. 57

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit QUARTZ LENSES
Deposit THIS RECORD HAS BEEN REVISED TO INCLUDE INFORMATION FROM RECORD NUMBER M232119, WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-81 Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-81 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-MAY-90 Maningas, M. (Marcus, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references

Authoritative Nevada resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.