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C and C Mine

Past Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Talc-Soapstone, 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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046849
MRDS ID M242066
Record type Site
Current site name C and C Mine
Alternate or previous names Cowhide No. 5 Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.74453, 37.43134 (WGS84)
Elevation 1951
Relative position 2.6 MILES BY ROAD SE OF THE DEAN MILL JUNCTION ON NEV. 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 10 NE Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Talc-Soapstone Primary
Clay Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ORE WAS A TALC-CHLORITE MIXTURE WHICH DID NOT COMMAND A HIGH PRICE. MOST ORE IS BRECCIATED WITH 1-2 INCH ROUNDED FRAGMENTS IN A FINE-GRAINED FOLIATED MATRIX. ORE IS HIGHLY VARIABLE IN COMPOSITION, RANGING FROM TALC WITH ONLY A LITTLE CHLORITE TO CHLORITE WITH MINOR TALC. QUARTZ AND CALCITE ARE COMMON IMPURITIES.

Materials information

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

Alteration

  • (Local) Intense Hydrothermal Alteration.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Sylvania Pluton
    Rock description Sylvania Pluton
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Hornfels
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Reed Dolomite;Wyman
    Rock description Reed Dolomite;Wyman

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.74453, 37.43134
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Faults, One Striking N 60 W, Cutting Off A Vertical N 50 E Fault

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR TO IRREGULAR
    Dip STEEP BUT VARIABLE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1944
Discoverer Charles Chance And Peter Cherooty
Year of first production 1944
Year of last production 1963

Mining district

District name Sylvania (Green Mountain) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Chance, Charles
    First year 1975

Comments on the workings information

  • EARLIEST DEVELOPMENT WAS A 50-FT INCLINED SHAFT. OPEN PIT WAS DEVELOPED IN 1950'S. OPEN CUT 1500 FT SE OF THE C AND C OPEN PIT WAS MINED BY H.N. STEWART.

Comments on development

  • PROPERTY WAS WORKED BY OWNERS ABOUT 1944-1950. IN EARLY AND MIDDLE 1950'S IT WAS LEASED TO A.A. GOEHRING, WHO DEVELOPED THE OPEN PIT AND MINED MOST OF THE ORE. H.N. STEWART MINED FROM AN OPEN CUT 1500 FT SE OF CAN C OPEN PIT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PAPKE, K.G., 1975, NBMG BULL. 84, P. 33-35

  • Production

    PAPKE, K.G., 1975, P. 33.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MOST TALCOSE MATERIAL OCCURS ALONG THE CONTACT OF IGNEOUS AND DOLOMITIC ROCKS. AN AREA 1500 FT SE OF C AND C OPEN PIT HAS IRREGULAR CHLORITE-RICH BODIES APPROXIMATELY CONFORMABLE TO BEDDING, IN HORNFELS, 400 FT SOUTH OF THE CONTACT OF IGNEOUS ROCKS WITH REED DOLOMITE.

Reporter information

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

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