Gold Crown

Past Producer in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodity Gold
Sections on this page
  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. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10103573
MRDS ID M031273
Record type Site
Current site name Gold Crown
Alternate or previous names Part of the Summit Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.36113, 39.09105 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Windy Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ely(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ely(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Spring-Steptoe 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 White Pine

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
14N 67E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.36113, 39.09105

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Clay Seams And Fractured Zones About 6 Inches Wide.

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fracture Zones,Brecciation

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Osceola

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • TUNNELS,DRIFTS

Comments on development

  • PLACERS WERE DISCOVERED IN THE AREA IN 1932 BUT DID NOT PROVE TO BE VERY PRODUCTIVE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WEEKS, F.B., 1908, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE OSCEOLA DISTRICT, WHITE PINE CO. NEV, NEV. GEO BULL. 340

  • Deposit

    HOSE, R.K., BLAKE, M.C.JR., AND SMITH, R.M.,1976, NBMG BULL 85, PT II, P. 60-62.

  • Deposit

    VANDERBURG, W.O., 1936, NBMG BULL 27, P. 167-173.

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, M.G., 1973, USGS BULL 1356, P. 93-95.

  • Deposit

    USBM, 1983, MILS DATA.

  • Deposit

    TERRADATA, 1980, A MINERAL INVENTORY OF THE SCHELL RESOURCE AREA, ELY DISTRICT, NEVADA, PREPARED FOR BLM.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1979 Giorgi, Albert John (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-OCT-1983 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Nevada resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.