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Blue Dick Mine

Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Lead, Barium-Barite, Gold
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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 10047148
MRDS ID M242400
Record type Site
Current site name Blue Dick Mine
Alternate or previous names President Wilson Claims Nos. 1-6, Junetta, Daisy, Wild Rose Claims., NBMG Sample Sites 1125, 1126 and 1127

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.55083, 37.45778 (WGS84)
Elevation 2377

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Magruder Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Last Chance Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Cactus-Sarcobatus Flats(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 005S 040E 33 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • 2.5 MILES SW OF LIDA, 0N STEEP SE SIDE OF PALMETTO MOUNTAIN.; UTM IS FOR NBMG SAMPLE SITE 1125 FROM MAIN ADIT. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Barium-Barite Critical Primary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Cambrian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Campito;Deep Springs
    Rock description Campito;Deep Springs

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.55083, 37.45778
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Columbia Mountain Fault;

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 2.44M
    Length 3218.6M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Thrust Fault; Faults, Fractures

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1880

Mining district

District name Palmetto(?) District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • No longer producing barite as of 2012 (Miller, 2013)

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 304.8M

Comments on the workings information

  • ORIGINAL 135-FT SHAFT, TUNNEL, EXTENSIVE DRIFTING; CUTS; TRAMLINE PRIOR TO 1965; LARGE STOPES. SEVERAL ADITS-SHAFTS 300 FT ABOVE MAIN ADIT, CONNECTED TO MAIN ADIT BY RAISES AND STOPES

Comments on development

  • OWNERS LIVING ON THE PROPERTY 1912-1922 CONTINUOUSLY DEVELOPING IT. IN 1965, A REPORT SAID THAT THIS MINE WAS A GOOD PRODUCER IN THE PAST AND WAS ENTERING PRODUCTION AGAIN WITH A SMALL MILL BEING CONSTRUCTED ON THE PROPERTY. RECENT ACTIVITY EVIDENT IN JUNE, 1982.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    1922, REPORT ON BLUEDICK MINE SUBMITTED TO TONOPAH MINING CO.: NBMG FILE 95, ITEM 5.

  • Production

    Miller, M., 2013, Barite, in Industrial Minerals Review 2012: Mining Engineering, v. 65, no. 7, p. 41-42.

  • Deposit

    NOTTI, TONY T., 1965, UNPUBLISHED REPORT ON THE LIDA AND PALMETTO MINING DISTRICTS: NBMG FILE 95, ITEM 6.

  • Deposit

    NBMG BULL 78, PL.2.

  • Deposit

    QUADE, JACK, 1982, FIELD EXAMINATION, 3 JUNE 1982.

  • Deposit

    ROOT, W.A., 1909, "THE LIDA MINING DISTRICT OF NEVADA"; MINING WORLD, VOL. 31, P.123-125.

  • Production

    NOTTI, T.T., 1965.

  • Reserve-Resource

    UNKNOWN, 1922, NBMG FILE 95, ITEMS

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEINS ALONG FAULTS, FRACTURES AND FAULT CONTACTS BETWEEN LITHOLOGIES
Deposit BARITE STOCKPILED ON A BENCH 500 FT BELOW MAIN ADIT ; 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1982-09-01 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 2013-07-17 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey no longer producing barite. status of gold is unknown.

Beyond USGS

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