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Manhattan Project Keystone Mine

Plant in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Fluorine-Fluorite, 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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10125356
MAS/MILS ID 0320230389
Record type Site
Current site name Manhattan Project Keystone Mine
Alternate or previous names Capital Nos. 1-3, Keystone Mine 1996, Keystone Wall Mine 1979, Keystone Mine 1951, Keystone Mine, Summit Mine 1924, Wall Prospect 1924, Keystone Nos. 1-10 1979, Capital, Capital Fraction, Keystone Jr. Claims 1988, Wall Summit Mine 1986, Keystone-Manhattan Mine 1996

Comments on the site names

  • FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE KEYSTONE MINE, (CLOSED), NOW AS THE MANHATTAN PROJECT UNDER EXPLORATION FOR MORE RESOURCES. NEAR THE TOWN OF MANHATTAN. 50 MILES SO OF THE KINGSTON MINE.

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -117.04812, 38.52163 (WGS84)
Elevation 2312
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Manhattan(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ione Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Southern Big Smoky Valley(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(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 Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 008 N 044 E 28 NENE Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Tertiary
Gold Primary
Silver Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) Crossbedded quartzite, siltstone, and phyllite
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Plant
Commodity type Both
Significant No
Mining method Open Pit
Year of first production 1930
Plant type Leach
Milling method Heap Leach-Merrill-Crowe

Comments on exploration

  • OPTIONED AND DRILLED BY FREEPORT IN 1983.

Mining district

District name Keystone Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Dixie Exploration Corp.
    Home office Nevada
    Year 1996
  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Nevada Goldfields, Inc.
    Home office Nevada
    Year 1991
    Last year 1996

Comments on the ownership information

  • OWNED BY NORMA LAMBERT, LEASED BY ANTHONY SELIG, WHO LEASED IT TO NV GOLDFIELDS, WHO MINED THIS DEPOSIT IN 5 MOS. TIME IN 1990. NEW OPERATOR AS OF 1996, OWNER IS UNKNOWN AS OF 1996.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • DRILLED RESERVES 86,600 SHORT TONS @ 0.208 OZ AU AND UNKNOWN AG

Comments on the workings information

  • ORE TRUCKED TO MILL LOCATED AT VICTORINE MINE IN LANDER COUNTY, NV.

Comments on other economic factors

  • MINED AND PROCESS 47,000 TONS (MILLABLE) + 40,000 TONS LEACHABLE) AT KINGSTON MILL ABOUT 50 MILES NORTH OF MANHATTAN - HAULED BY TRUCKS AT 770 TPD. PROCESSED 660 TPD WHEN MILL REACHED FULL CAPACITY IN 1990.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KRAL, 1951, NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 50, P. 126.

  • Deposit

    UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA BULLETIN VOL. 49, NO. 3, GEOLOGY &

  • Deposit

    MINERAL SERIES 50, 1951, P. 1.

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES REPORT OF INVESTIGATION 4819, 1951,

  • Deposit

    P. 1.

  • Deposit

    U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEOLOGY MAP, GQ-40, 1954, 1/125,000.

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    NEVADA DIVISION MINE INSPECTION, 1991, DIRECTORY OF NEVADA

  • Deposit

    MINE OPERATIONS ACTIVE DURING CALENDAR YEAR 1990, P. 74.

  • Deposit

    FERGUSON, H.K., 1924, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 723,

  • Deposit

    P. 97, 137, 138.

  • Deposit

    NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES & GEOLOGY BULLETIN 93, 1979,

  • Deposit

    P. 39-40.

  • Deposit

    SHAWE, D.R., 1986, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, VOL. 81, NO. 2,

  • Deposit

    P. 393-396.

  • Deposit

    1990-1991 RANDOL MINING DIRECTORY, P. 222.

  • Deposit

    AREAS OF DEVELOPMENT INTEREST IN THAT PART OF THE TOQUIMA

  • Deposit

    RANGE, NEVADA, ADMINISTERED AS TOIYABE NATIONAL FOREST.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 13-DEC-96 Buckingham, David A. U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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