Gold Group

Prospect in Clark county in Nevada, United States with commodity Gold
Sections on this page
  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. Mineral occurrence model information
  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. Ownership information
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10310508
Record type Site
Current site name Gold Group
Alternate or previous names Crescent Property, Crescent Mine, Tiger Lily Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.12876, 35.46858 (WGS84)
Relative position The property is located about 12 miles west of Searchlight and about miles north of Crescent Peak Summit.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Clark(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Crescent Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ivanpah(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Kingman(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Ivanpah-Pahrump 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 Clark

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 028N 061E 26 35 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • The property is situated on the north flank of Crescent Peak, and encompasses the historic Crescent Mine. The UTM was calculated to the old Crescent Mine adit.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • Ore Materials: GOLD

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 85
USGS model code 22c
Deposit model name Polymetallic veins
Mark3 model number 46

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mesozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.12876, 35.46858

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form VEINS?

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant Yes

Mining district

District name Crescent District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Yellowjack Resources, Ltd.
    Year 1992
  • Type Operator
    Owner Westland Minerals Exploration
    Year 1992

Comments on the workings information

  • Old workings are underground

Comments on other economic factors

  • Past production from the deposit is unknown. Reserves and resources in 1992 were reported to be 3000 kilotonnes of ore containing 2.26 tonnes of gold (Long and others, 1998).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NBMG MI-92

  • Deposit

    NBMG MI-96

  • Deposit

    NBMG MI-97

  • Deposit

    NBMG OFR 83-11, 12p.;

  • Deposit

    Amer. Mines (1991-92), 1991

  • Deposit

    Lechler, P.J., and Hsu, L.C., 1988, Review of hydrothermal platinum-group metal deposits with new data from Nevada: Preprint for American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers Meeting, 7 p.

  • Deposit

    Ivanpah 1-degree Quad Geology: USGS Professional Paper 275, Hewett, 1956

  • Deposit

    Long, K.R., DeYoung, J.H., Jr., and Ludington, S.D., 1998, Significant deposits of gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc in the United States: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 90-206A, 33 p.; 98-206B. one 3.5 inch diskette.

  • Deposit

    Lechler, P.J., 1988, A new platinum-group-element discovery at Crescent Peak, Clark County, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Open-File Report 88-1, 4 p.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-2003 LaPointe, D.D. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Editor 01-SEP-2007 Schruben, Paul G. U.S. Geological Survey Converted from S&A FileMaker format to Oracle. Edit checks on rocks, units, and ages with Geolex search, and other fields.

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Authoritative Nevada resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.