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King Mine

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. 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 10046854
MRDS ID M242071
Record type Site
Current site name King Mine
Alternate or previous names White King No. 3 Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.72648, 37.42439 (WGS84)
Elevation 2073
Relative position 3.7 MILES BY ROAD SE OF THE DEAN MILL JUNCTION ON STATE 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 SW OF SE Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • 800 FT NE OF GATES MINE AND ADJOINING THE WHITE KING EXTENSION MINE ON THE WEST ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Talc-Soapstone Primary
Clay Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • LIGHT GREENISH GRAY, VERY FINE-GRAINED COMPACT ORE

Materials information

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

Alteration

  • (Local) Strong Hydrothermal Alteration Of Intrusive Rocks

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Reed Dolomite
    Rock description Reed Dolomite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.72648, 37.42439
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Faults

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike ROUGHLY NW-SE
    Dip 55-85 NE
    Length 106.68M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Contact Zone Of Dolomite And Intrusive Rocks

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1940
Discoverer W.E. Mac Boyle, M.D. Mac Boyle And J.E. King
Year of first production 1945

Mining district

District name Sylvania (Green Mountain) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Lessee/Operator
    Owner Chance, Charles
    First year 1969
  • Type Owner
    Owner J. E. King, (1940'S)

Comments on the workings information

  • INCLINED ADIT WITH MAXIMUM BACK OF 65 FT, IN 1940'S. OPEN PIT BEGUN IN 1969 AND CONTINUED THROUGH 1970'S. BULLDOZER TRENCHES

Comments on development

  • OPERATED FOR 2.5 YEAR PERIOD IN MID 1940'S AS AN UNDERGROUND MINE,BY RUSSELL ROPER

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PAPKE, K.G., 1975, P. 38-41.

  • Deposit

    QUADE, JACK, 1982, FIELD INSPECTION OF JUNE 4, 1982

  • Production

    PAPKE, K.G., 1975, P. 38.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit TALCOSE BODIES EXTEND 350 FT ON THIS CLAIM AND 850 FT MORE ON THE ADJACENT WHITE KING EXTENSION PROPERTY TO THE EAST. CONTACT BETWEEN DOLOMITE AND ORE IS A N-DIPPING FAULT ZONE

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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