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Silver Gulch Mine

Past Producer in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Lead, Antimony, Barium-Barite
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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. Geologic structures
  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 10098628
MRDS ID M233134
Record type Site
Current site name Silver Gulch Mine
Alternate or previous names NBMG # 3578

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.36373, 38.27854 (WGS84)
Elevation 2012

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Moho Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Excelsior Mountains(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 05N 35E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Antimony Critical Tertiary
Barium-Barite Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Barite Gangue
Linarite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Granitic Rocks
    Rock description Granitic Rocks
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Chemical Sediment > Chert
    Rock unit name Dunlap Formation
    Rock description Dunlap Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.36373, 38.27854
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Ne-Trending Faults
Type of structure Local
Structure description Strong Folding, Tert And Quat Faulting

Ore body information

  • General form LINEAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Badly Fractured Conglomeate

Comments on the geologic information

  • OLDER WORKINGS ARE ALONG NORTHEAST-STRIKING SHEARS WHICH ARE BADLY FRACTURED AND BRECCIATED. COUNTRY ROCK IS DARK-GRAY CHERT

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Significant No

Mining district

District name Marietta

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner American Gold
    Home office Beatty, Nevada

Comments on the production information

  • FEW THOUSAND DOLLARS PRODUCTION

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 152.4M

Comments on the workings information

  • 3 ADITS TOTALLING 500 FT,NEWER WORK CONSIST OF A NETWORK OF ROADS THAT CUT THE MOUNTAIN ABOUT 10 TIMES IN A STAIR STEP FASHION, APPARENTLY LOOKING FOR VEINS.

Comments on development

  • THIS AREA WAS EXPLORED IN THE 1860'S ; ECON.COM: PRODUCTION SOME BUT SMALL

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ROSS, D.C., 1961, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 58

  • Deposit

    TELLURIDE CLAIMS, MARIETTA MINING DISTRICT,MINERAL COUNTY, QUADE SITE VISIT 4-19-89,NBMG UNPUBLISHED MINING DISTRICT FILES (TINGLEY FILES)

  • Production

    ROSS, D.C., 1961, TABLE 6.7

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit BARITE STRINGERS IN CHERT CONGLOMERATE CONTAIN ARGENTIFEROUS TETRAHEDRITE AND GALENA

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1981 Flynn, Patricia Dodd Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-AUG-1991 Marcus, S. (Doebrich, J.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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