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Good Hope Mine

Past Producer in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Arsenic, Antimony
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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. Land status
  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 10104020
MRDS ID M233200
Record type Site
Current site name Good Hope Mine
Alternate or previous names NBMG # 3629

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.47012, 38.45159 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pamlico(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Excelsior Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Walker Lake(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 Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 007N 031E 24 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • NORTH SIDE NEVERSWEAT CANYON (FAIR CONDITION OF THE ROAD)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary
Antimony Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Porphyry Intrusive

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff
    Rock unit name Excelsior Formation
    Rock description Excelsior Formation
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.47012, 38.45159
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Northerly Trending Faults

Ore body information

  • General form LENSES
    Strike N70W
    Dip 15S

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fracture, Shear Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • VEIN IS OFFSET ON EACH END BY NORTHERLY TRENDING FAULTS. FAULTED EXTENSIONS OF VEIN PROBABLY COULD BE FOUND TO NE AND SW OF THE STOPED AREA.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Production years PRODUCTION YEARS 1885 - 1912

Mining district

District name Pamlico

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the production information

  • $150,000 IN AU

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 152.4M

Comments on the workings information

  • AN ADIT ABOUT 500 FEET LONG TRENDS N-NE FROM THE NORTH SIDE OF NEVERSWEAT CANYON. VEIN EXPLORED AND WORKED FOR DISTANCE OF ABOUT 120 FEET ALONG STRIKE.

Comments on development

  • WORKED DURING THE 1870'S TO 1880'S. ; ECON.COM: AS OF 1923 $150,000 REPORTED IN GOLD PRODUCTION.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ARCHBOLD AND PAUL, 1970, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE PAMLICO MINING DISTRICT, MINERAL CO., NEV.; NBMG BULL. 74

  • Deposit

    LINCOLN, 1923, MINING DISTRICTS AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF NEVADA; NEVADA NEWSLETTER PUBL. CO.

  • Deposit

    TELLURIDE CLAIMS, HAWTHORNE MINING DISTRICT, MINERAL COUNTY, QUADE SITE VISIT 5-3-89, NBMG UNPUBLISHED DISTRICT MINING FILES (TINGLEY FILES).

  • Production

    LINCOLN, 1923

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE ADIT CROSSCUTS A VEIN THAT IS ITSELF OFFSET ON EACH END BY NORTHERLY-TRENDING FAULTS. THIS ACCOUNTS FOR THE LIMITED EXPLORATION IN EITHER DIRECTION (120 FEET). ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1981 Royse, Sue E. 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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