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Los Amigos Mining Co

Past Producer in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, 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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10098376
MRDS ID M035643
Record type Site
Current site name Los Amigos Mining Co
Alternate or previous names Los Amigos Mine, NBMG Sample Site # 3643, #3644,#3645

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.32123, 38.61325 (WGS84)
Elevation 2012
Relative position APPROX. 10 MI. NW OF LUNING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Indian Head Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(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 Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 009N 033E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ESTIMATE LOCATION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.32123, 38.61325
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • A PROMINANT KNOB NE OF INDIAN HEAD PEAK HAS BEEN CIRCUMNAVIGATED BY ROADS EXPOSING 75-100 COPPER-BEARING STOCKWORK-LIKE VEINS. WORKINGS SEEM TO BE DIRECTED AT SHEAR ZONES.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Fitting

Comments on the workings information

  • OLD ADITS, SHAFTS, NUMEROUS PROSPECTS, PITS AND TRENCHES WITH DOZER CUTS, ROADS AND DRILL-HOLES; RECENT WORK APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN WITHIN THE LAST FIVE YEARS. THE KNOB WAS THE SITE OF SEVERAL OLD SHAFTS WHICH WERE LATER CUT-OFF IN PART INTO A PAD FROM WHICH A PROMINENT ANGLE HOLE WAS DRILLED THROUGH THE STRUCTURE. FURTHER TO THE WEST, AND NEARER TO THE PLUG THAT FORMS INDIAN HEAD PEAK ARE THREE MAJOR WORKINGS HOSTED IN THE SAME ARGILLIC SILTSTONES. THE WORKINGS ARE SHALLOW AND SEEM TO BE DIRECTED AT SHEAR ZONES. TWO ORE BINS CONTAIN GOUGE AND MATERIAL TAKEN FROM THESE ZONES, MANY OF WHICH ARE STOPED THROUGH TO THE SURFACE AND NONE OF WHICH WERE DEEPENED.

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: SOME PRODUCTION BUT AMOUNT UNKNOWN.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LOS AMIGOS MINE, FITTING DISTRICT, MINERAL COUNTY; QUADE, JACK, SAMPLE SITE VISIT 5/5/89; NBMG UNPUBLISHED MINING DISTRICT FILES (TINGLEY FILES)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEINS RANGE FROM A FEW INCHES TO SEVERAL FEET IN WIDTH AND ARE STEEPLY DIPPING AND MOSTLY BEAR NORTH.
Deposit NMBG SAMPLE # 3643 WAS TAKEN FROM THE EXPOSED VEINS NEAR THE TOP OF THE KNOB. NBMG SAMPLE #3644 WAS TAKEN FROM EXPOSED SHALLOW SHEAR ZONES. NBMG SAMPLE # 3645 WAS TAKEN FROM A LINE OF VERY OLD SHALLOW ADITS THAT WERE DRIVEN ON VEINS HOSTED IN A GRAY-WHITE FELSIC UNIT ADJACENT TO A VERY OLD STONE CABIN. THE VEINS CONTAIN QUARTZ STRINGERS WITH GALENA. THE ONLY ROAD IS FROM THE EAST AND IS VERY BADLY WASHED. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1979 Fiebelkorn, J. B. (Stewart, J. H.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAY-1989 Quade, Jack U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-NOV-1991 Moyer, Lorre A. (Marcus, S.M.) U.S. Geological Survey

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