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Cowhide 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. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046850
MRDS ID M242067
Record type Site
Current site name Cowhide Mine
Alternate or previous names Cowhide Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.73398, 37.42439 (WGS84)
Elevation 2073
Relative position 3.6 MILES BY ROAD SE OF DEAN MILL JUNCTION ON NEVADA 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 S2 OF SW Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Clay Primary
Talc-Soapstone Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ORE IS MOSTLY CHLORITE WITH MINOR TO EQUAL AMOUNTS OF TALC, AND SMALL AMOUNTS OF QUARTZ AND CALCITE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Calcite Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Tremolite Gangue
Chlorite Unknown
Talc Unknown

Alteration

  • (Local) Strongly Sheared And Hydrothermally Altered Diorite

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.73398, 37.42439
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Steeply-Dipping Faults

Ore body information

  • Length 91.44M
    Width 4.57M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Steeply-Dipping Fault Forms North Boundary Of Mineralized Zone; Igneous Contact

Comments on the geologic information

  • BEDS STRIKE WNW AND DIP 50-75 N

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1939
Discoverer Justin Gates

Mining district

District name Sylvania (Green Mountain) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 4.57M
    Overall depth 12.19M

Comments on the workings information

  • 40-FT ADIT IN EASTERN PART AND A 15-FT SHAFT IN WESTERN PART, PITS

Comments on development

  • EARLY DEVELOPMENT BY GATES INCLUDED A 40-FT ADIT IN E. PART AND 15-FT SHAFT IN W. PART. PROPERTY WAS LEASED BY H.N. STEWART ABOUT 1945-1964. HE MIXED ORE WITH MATERIAL FROM THE GATES MINE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PAPKE, K.G., 1975, NBMG BULL. 84, P. 35-37

  • Production

    PAPKE, K.G., 1975, P. 36.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CHLORITE MINERALIZED ZONE BOUNDED ON BOTH SIDES BY HIGH-ANGLE FAULTS

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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