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Homestake Mine

Past Producer in Lyon county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, Lead, Silver, 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. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10103618
MRDS ID M035871
Record type Site
Current site name Homestake Mine
Alternate or previous names NBMG # 4407

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.25709, 38.91797 (WGS84)
Elevation 1804
Relative position 4.5 MI. EAST OF ARTESIA LAKE, SINGATSE RANGE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lyon(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Artesia Lake(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Smith Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

West Walker(hydrologic unit)

Walker(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Lahontan(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 Lyon

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 012N 024E 11 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • LITERATURE PLACES MINE 2 MI. SW OF MCCONNELL MINE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Lead Primary
Silver Secondary
Gold Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Copper Sulfides And Galena Occur In Both Vein And Replacement Ore. Some Of The Quartz Vein Was Brecciated Near Fissures In The South End Of The Camp.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.25709, 38.91797
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE NORTHERN-MOST WORKINGS ARE IN META-SEDIMENTS WHILE THE WORKINGS TO THE SOUTH ARE MORE IN GRANITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Production years SMALL TONNAGE OF COPPER-SILVER ORE SHIPPED IN 1940.

Mining district

District name Yerington

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • SHIPPED SMALL TONNAGE OF CU - AG ORE ABOUT 1940

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFTS AND ADITS IN A NARROW, NORTH TRENDING CANYON A QUARTER MILE WIDE AND A HALF MILE LONG

Comments on development

  • DISCOVERED BEFORE 1940 BUT THERE ARE DETAILED RECORDS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    TELLURIDE CLAIMS,YERINGTON MINING DISTRICT,LYON COUNTY, QUADE VISIT SITE 7-11-89,NBMG UNPUBLISHED MINING DISTRICT FILES (TINGLEY FILES).

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit POOR ACCESS TO THIS PART OF THE DISTRICT ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Deposit CONTACT METASOMATIC

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-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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Authoritative Nevada resources

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