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Reed Mine

Past Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodity 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046862
MRDS ID M242081
Record type Site
Current site name Reed Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.76398, 37.44217 (WGS84)
Elevation 1875
Relative position ABOUT 1.5 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 Canyon(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 04 SE Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UTM IS TO NEAR CENTER OF AREA OF SEVERAL WORKINGS. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Talc-Soapstone Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Talc Ore
Chlorite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Sylvania Pluton
    Rock description Sylvania Pluton
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Reed Dolomite
    Rock description Reed Dolomite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.76398, 37.44217
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR LENSES
    Thickness 3.66M
    Length 213.36M
    Width 39.62M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Palmetto-Oasis Thrust Fault Zone-(E-W Fault Contact Between Dolomite And Quartz Monzonite)

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1927
Discoverer F.V. Bovard

Mining district

District name Sylvania (Green Mountain) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the production information

  • MOST PRODUCTION WAS 1938-1943 SHIPPED TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MINERALS CO. FOR USE IN COTTON FINISHING AND COSMETICS. THERE WAS SMALL PRODUCTION IN THE W. PART OF THE PROPERTY IN THE EARLY 1950'S BY BLUE STAR TALC MINES, LTD.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 335.28M
    Overall depth 30.48M

Comments on the workings information

  • ADIT 1100 FT LONG WITH WINZES TO 70 FT DEEP AND SEVERAL SURFACE CONNECTIONS (GLORY HOLES, CAVED PITS), A 100-FT INCLINED SHAFT CONNECTED TO THE ADIT.

Comments on development

  • CLAIMS WERE LATER TAKEN OVER BY MRS. MAUDE REED WHO LEASED THEM OUT WITH LITTLE PRODUCTION UNTIL 1938 WHEN LESSEE ROY COULON PRODUCED MOST OF THE PROPERTY'S ORE EXCEPT FOR A PERIOD OF PRODUCTION BY SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MINERALS CO. THE PROPERTY WAS OWNED BY BLUE STAR TALC MINES, LTD. IN EARLY 1950'S, WHO MADE A SMALL PRODUCTION; BOUGHT BY SIERRA TALC AND CLAY CO. IN 1952.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NBMG BULL 78, P. 63-64, 71.

  • Deposit

    PAPKE, K.G., 1975, NBMG BULL 84, P. 30

  • Production

    PAPKE, K.G., 1975, P. 30

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MOST ORE CAME FROM ZONE EXPOSED FOR 700 FT AT SURFACE, 1-12 FT THICK, EXTENDING 130 FT DOWN DIP. ON ADIT LEVEL, ORE ZONE CONSISTS OF 2 RAGGED LENSES OF WHITE TALC SEPARATED BY A ZONE OF TALC STRINGERS. THE IRREGULAR LENTICULAR ORE BODIES LIE ALONG THE CONTACT OR IN DOLOMITE A SHORT DISTANCE TO THE SOUTH. CHLORITE-RICH MATERIAL OFTEN OCCURS ON THE HANGING WALL SIDE OF THE ORE ZONE.

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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