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El Padre Mine

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodity Stone, Dimension
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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. Ore body information
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10103950
MRDS ID M231549
Record type Site
Current site name El Padre Mine
Alternate or previous names Santa Maria Claims, El Padre Quarry

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.42365, 38.70661 (WGS84)
Elevation 1707
Relative position ABOUT 3.2 AIRMILES S50E FROM CURRANT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Currant(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Duckwater(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lund(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Hot Creek-Railroad 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 Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 010N 058E 23 SW Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ABOUT 1 MILE WNW OF RED MOUNTAIN

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Dimension Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Horse Camp
    Rock description Horse Camp
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.42365, 38.70661
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Strike N43W
    Dip 50NE
    Thickness 7.62M
    Length 609.6M
  • General form BLANKET
    Dip 50NE

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Sedimentary Bedding

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE STONE EXHIBITS ORNAMENTAL LIESEGANG BANDS.THE TUFF VARIES IN COLOR AND SHOWS SOME BROWN STAINS ALONG FRACTURE PLANES, GIVING SOME PARTS OF THE DEPOSIT A WONDERSTONE APPEARANCE. THE TUFF IS LIGHTWEIGHT AND QUITE HARD, WITH NO ORDERLY SYSTEM OF DEVELOPED FRACTURES.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Currant District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner George Boscovich And Paul Menieke Of Tonopah
    First year 1968

Comments on the production information

  • SMALL SCALE IN THE MID 1960'S.THE BUFF-COLORED TUFF IS QUARRIED, BROKEN INTO 8 IN BY 12 IN DIMENSIONS, AND PACKED IN WIRE PALLETS FOR SHIPMENT.

Comments on the workings information

  • QUARRY

Comments on development

  • SANTA MARIA #1 WAS RELOCATED IN 1968 BY GEORGE BOSCOVICH. RECENT WORK IS APPARENT BUT THE QUARRY ITSELF APPEARS TO HAVE EXISTED CONSIDERABLY PRIOR TO 1958. IT WAS WORKED ON A SMALL SCALE IN THE MID-1960'S.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KLEINHAMPL, F.J. AND ZIONY, J.I., GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSIT OF NORTHERN NYE CO.: NEV. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, BULLETIN, IN PRESS.

  • Deposit

    KRAL, V.E.,1951, NBMG BULL 50

  • Deposit

    CRANDELL, W.D. (1977) (UPDATE) BLM UNIT RESOURCE ANALYSIS, MINERAL RESOURCE ANALYSIS OF THE DUCKWATER PLANNING UNIT (407) IN THE ELY DISTRICT.

  • Deposit

    JONES, R.B. AND BENTZ, J., FIELD EXAMINATION 9 JULY 1981.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE QUARRY IS DEVELOPED ALONG A 25-FT THICK BED OF WATER-LAID VITREOUS TUFF, WHICH IS UNDERLAIN BY SANDSTONE AND SHALE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1980 Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAY-1982 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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