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Gold Basin Mine

Past Producer in Churchill county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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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. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  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 10047617
MRDS ID M243029
Record type Site
Current site name Gold Basin Mine
Alternate or previous names Branch Canyon Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.12734, 39.20963 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Churchill(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bell Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Fallon(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Reno(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Dixie Valley(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 Churchill

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 016N 034E 35 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UTM IS TO ONE SHAFT SHOWN ON TOPO MAP ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Argentite Ore
Gold Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation

Analytical data

Result 3 SAMPLES COLLECTED BY WILLDEN AND SPEED CONTAINED 0.11, 0.59 AND 1.11 PPM AU, AND 3, 7, AND 5 PPM AG.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff > Welded Tuff
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff > Welded Tuff

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.12734, 39.20963
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR TO IRREGULAR
    Strike N 30 W (VANDERBURG); N 24 E (NBMG BULL 83)
    Dip 60 E; 87 NW; 75 SE (SCHRADER)
    Width 1.07M
  • General form TABULAR TO IRREGULAR
    Strike N 30 W (VANDERBURG); N 24 E (NBMG BULL 83)
    Dip 60 E; 87 NW; 75 SE (SCHRADER)
  • General form TABULAR TO IRREGULAR
    Strike N 30 W (VANDERBURG); N 24 E (NBMG BULL 83)
    Dip 60 E; 87 NW; 75 SE (SCHRADER)

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1915

Mining district

District name Fairview District; Gold Basin District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Gold Basin Mining Co.,
    First year 1940
  • Type Owner
    Owner Gold Basin Mining Co., Owned By E. S. Montgomery
    Home office Fallon, Nv
    First year 1940

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 182.88M

Comments on the workings information

  • 250-FT LONG ADIT, WINZE LESS THAN 100 FT DEEP DRIVEN FROM THE ADIT LEVEL AND SUBSIDIARY WORKINGS COMPRISING IN ALL ABOUT 600 FT. SEVERAL CAMP BUILDINGS.

Comments on development

  • OWNED AND WORKED BY FRED BRANCH AND ASSOCIATES FROM 1915 TO AT LEAST 1935, AT WHICH TIME THE OWNERS HAD A SMALL GASOLINE-POWERED COMPRESSOR ON THE PROPERTY AND WERE CONSTRUCTING A SMALL ELLIS MILL AT WESTGATE. 5 UNPATENTED CLAIMS. THE ONLY PRODUCTION WAS A FEW SMALL SHIPMENTS TO THE DAYTON CUSTOM MILL AT SILVER CITY.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    YORK, BERNARD, 1935, UNPUBLISHED REPORT, NBMG MINING DISTRICT FILE 7, ITEM 6.

  • Deposit

    NBMG BULL 83, 1974, P. 74, PL. 1

  • Deposit

    VANDERBURG, W.O., USBM IC 7093

  • Deposit

    SCHRADER, F.C., 1947, UNPUBLISHED REPORT ON THE CARSON SINK AREA, USGS OFR.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit GOLD OCCURS IN NARROW FRACTURES OR FISSURES DESCRIBED BY VANDERBURG AS STRIKING N 30 W, DIP 60 E, BUT THE SHEAR ZONE EXPOSED IN THE PORTAL AND OBSERVED BY WILLDEN AND SPEED TRENDS N 24 E, DIP 87 NW. THE 3.5-FT WIDE SHEAR ZONE EXHIBITS THE STRONGEST CRUSHING ON THE FOOTWALL SIDE. SOME OF THE OXIDIZED AND BRECCIATED MATERIAL IN THE SHEAR ZONE PANNED FREE GOLD WELL, ACCORDING TO VANDERBURG. INTERSECTION OF FISSURES PROVIDED SOME GOOD-GRADE ORE, BUT FISSURES ARE IRREGULAR-HARD TO PREDICT GOOD VALUES.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1980 Flynn, Patricia D. (Tingley, J. V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-DEC-1986 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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