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Silver King Mine

Producer in Lincoln county in Nevada, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Arsenic
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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. Mineral occurrence model information
  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. Ownership information
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037341
MRDS ID M032022
Record type Site
Current site name Silver King Mine
Related records 10246890

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.87807, 38.29134 (WGS84)
Relative position SOUTHERN END OF CAVE VALLEY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Silver King Well(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wilson Creek Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lund(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Dry Lake Valley(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 Lincoln

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
05N 63E 15,14,PROJECTED,FROM,THE,NORTH Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • AREA UNSURVEYED ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Arsenic Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Hematite Gangue
Limonite Gangue

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.87807, 38.29134
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description N Trending Normal Fault
Type of structure Local
Structure description Ew Fractures

Ore body information

  • Strike N55W
    Dip 90

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault Zone, Igneous Contact

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORE BODIES OCCUR NEAR THE CONTACT BETWEEN THE LIMESTONE AND THE QUARTZ DIORITE PORPHYRY, AS BOTH SMALL REPLACEMENT DEPOSITS AND AS VEINS. A 7 INCH STRINGER OF HEAVY PB-AG-AS SULFIDES WAS EXPOSED FOR 12 FEET IN THE VEIN.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Silver King (Sunnyside?) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Anaconda Co.
    First year 1981
  • Type Owner
    Owner Hill And Hendrix
    First year 1980

Comments on the production information

  • 8-10 CARLOADS OF PB-AG ORE PRODUCED

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 152.4M

Comments on the workings information

  • THREE ADITS, AT LEAST ONE VERTICLE SHAFT; STOPES EXTEND TO SURFACE

Comments on development

  • PROPERTY WAS BEING DRILLED (EXPLORATION).BY ANACONDA CO.IN 1981. EVIDENCE OF SEVERAL DEEP HOLES, AND RIG ON PROPER-TY AT TIME OF VISIT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TSCHANTZ CM & PAMPEYAN EH, 1970, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF LINCOLN COUNTY, NEV BUR MINES BULL 73

  • Production

    TSCHANTZ AND PAMPEYAN, 1970

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ROCK ON DUMP AND AROUND SHAFT COLLAR A DARK LIMESTONE WITH MAROON CLOTS. FRACTURE ZONE AT SHAFT, N55W, VERTICAL, W-HITE CALCITE VEIN 1/4 IN. THICK ON SURFACE. FRACTURE CAN BE TR-ACED ALONG OUTCROP EAST OF THE SHAFT; STOPES HAVE CAVED ALONG -ZONE. UPPER (EASTERN) AREA OF WORKINGS (ON SIDEHILL PASS QUAD,- SAMPLE SITE 269) EXPLORES REPLACEMENT LENSES IN LIMESTONE ALO-NG N55W STRUCTURE. LOWEST WORKINGS EXPOSE KADLINIZED DIKE AT P-ORTAL; CONTACT WITH LIMESTONE TRENDS N20W, DIPS 60-65 SW; OLD -DUMPS ALONG HILLSLOPE TO WEST ARE ON N55-60W FRACTURES IN LIME-STONE.
Deposit DISTRICT UNORGANIZED, SEVERAL PROSPECTS IN AREA ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1980 Harner, Joy L. (Roberts, Ralph J.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

  • Anaconda Co. — dissolved ~1977
    Acquired by Atlantic Richfield (ARCO) in 1977 and shut down most operations in the 1980s. Mineral assets were sold off piecemeal; some are now in Glencore via intermediate owners.

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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