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Wilson Mine

Past Producer in Lyon 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. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Ownership information
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10103615
MRDS ID M035825
Record type Site
Current site name Wilson Mine
Alternate or previous names NBMG #4213 and NBMG #4214, Telluride Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.12209, 38.67991 (WGS84)
Elevation 2024
Relative position 21 MI SOUTH OF YERINGTON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lyon(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pine Grove Spring(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Smith Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Walker(hydrologic unit)

Walker(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Lahontan(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Lyon

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 010N 026E 31 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) The Pyrite Looks Like Replacement Bodies, Always Dark, Commonly Crushed And Said To Have Occurred As Lenses And Stringers.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.12209, 38.67991
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Faulting

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Ore Occurs In Qtz. Stringers And Lenses In Zones Of Intense Crushing And Alteration (Shear Zone)

Comments on the geologic information

  • DARK SHEARED GRANODIORITE CUT BY DIKES OF GRANITE PORPHYRY. CAPPING RHYOLITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1866
Discoverer Wilson

Mining district

District name Wilson - Pine Grove

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Mr. J. W. Cavanaugh
    Home office Wellington
  • Type Owner
    Owner Wilson

Comments on the workings information

  • NUMEROUS ADITS, PITS AND SHAFT. ABOUT 3 MILES OF UNDERGROUND WORKINGS, MANY INTERCONNECTED FROM 5 SHAFTS AND A HALF DOZEN ADITS, SOME NEW DOZING AND TRENCHINGS ARE BEING DONE.

Comments on development

  • RECENTLY, MR. J.W. CAVANAUGH INSTALLED A SMALL PILOT HEAP LEACH TO TREAT DUMPS OF OXIDES AND SULFIDE ORES. ; ECON.COM: $220,368 WAS REPORTED BETWEEN 1870 AND 1899. THIS AMOUNT WAS YIELDED FROM 7,623 TONS OF ORE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MOORE,J. G., 1969 , GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF DOUGLAS, LYON, ORMSBY, CO., NEV.,NEV. BUREAU OF MINES, BULL. 75 .

  • Deposit

    TELLURIDE CLAIMS, WILSON MINING DISTRICT, LYON COUNTY, QUADE SITE VISIT 06-30-89,NBMG UNPUBLISHED MINING DISTRICT FILES (TINGLEY FILES).

  • Production

    GROSS VALUE OF 220,368 DOLLARS

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ACCORDING TO MR. CAVANAUGH, THERE ARE TWO DISTINCT PHASES OF GRANITE WITH THE MINERALIZATION ASSOCIATED WITH THE DARKER DIORITIC PHASE, ALONG SHEARS AND WITH THE BEST ORE IN CONJUNCTION PYRITE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1979 Fiebelkorn, J. B. (Stewart, J. H.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUL-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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