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Yellowstone Mine

Occurrence in Pershing county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, 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. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Ore body information
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10047422
MRDS ID M242723
Record type Site
Current site name Yellowstone Mine
Alternate or previous names NBMG Sample Site 2671

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.83875, 40.58517 (WGS84)
Elevation 1859

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pershing(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lee Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Winnemucca(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Winnemucca(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Humboldt(hydrologic unit)

Humboldt(hydrologic accounting unit)

Black Rock Desert-Humboldt(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 Pershing

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 031N 037E 05 SE Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ON RIDGE BETWEEN RAWHIDE AND YELLOWSTONE CANYONS . INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Bleaching, Marbleization

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 104
USGS model code 25a
Deposit model name Hot-spring Au-Ag
Mark3 model number 45

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.83875, 40.58517
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 10 E
    Dip 90

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Sierra District; Dun Glen District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • 2 ADITS ON WEST SIDE OF HILL, ONE LONG ADIT ON EAST, NEAR STAMP MILL FOUNDATION SMALL CUT ON WEST RIDGE

Comments on development

  • NO ACTIVITY AT TIME OF EXAMINATION IN 1985

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TINGLEY, J.V., 19 JUN 85, NBMG FIELD EXAMINATION AND SAMPLE ANALYSIS.

  • Deposit

    NBMG STAFF, 1985, NBMG OFR 85-3.

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, M.G., 1977, NBMG BULL89, PL. I.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEIN CONSISTS OF WHITE TO CLEAR CHALCEDONIC QUARTZ, VEIN IS BANDED, HAS WAVY DARK LINES AS BANDS (PROBABLY FINE-GRAINED SULFIDES, SOME BRECCIATED AREAS, CEMENTED WITH LATER QUARTZ, DISSEMINATED RUBY SILVER (FINE-GRAINED PYRARGYRITE) IN THE BRECCIA FRAGMENTS, VEIN IS VUGGY, CLEAR QUARTZ CRYSTALS LINE VUGS. THE ADIT IN THE EAST SLOPE HAS NO VEIN MATERIAL ON ITS DUMP; PERHAPS IT WAS DRIVEN TO INTERSECT THE VEIN TO THE WEST, BUT DID NOT. THE DUMPS ON THE WEST DO HAVE VEIN MATERIAL ON THEIR DUMPS. LIMESTONE WALLROCK NEAR THE TWO WESTERN ADITS IS BLEACHED AND MARBLEIZED. A N10E, VERTICAL VEIN OUTCROPS IN A SMALL CUT ON THE WEST RIDGE, BUT EXPOSURES ARE TOO POOR TO DETERMINE IF THIS IS THE MAIN VEIN OR NOT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1986 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-SEP-1994 Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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