Arrowhead Wonder Mines Co.

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodity Silver
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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10045681
MRDS ID M233471
Record type Site
Current site name Arrowhead Wonder Mines Co.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.16728, 38.08606 (WGS84)
Elevation 1875
Relative position ABOUT 4.0 AIRMILES N03E OF OLD REVEILLE TOWNSITE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Reveille(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Warm Springs(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(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 003N 052E 30,31 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • NE OF ARROWHEAD MINE ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Intense Propylitization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Glassy Rock > Pumice
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Rock unit name Monotony Tuff;Tuff Of Arrowhead
    Rock description Monotony Tuff;Tuff Of Arrowhead
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyodacite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyodacite
    Rock unit name Monotony Tuff;Tuff Of Arrowhead
    Rock description Monotony Tuff;Tuff Of Arrowhead

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.16728, 38.08606

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Thrust Fault
Type of structure Local
Structure description E-W Fault, Nw-Striking Fault

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Arrowhead District; Needles District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • SMALL SHAFTS

Comments on development

  • INCORPORATED IN 1920; 7 CLAIMS NE OF THE ARROWHEAD MINES; NO ACTIVITY IN 1985.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WEED, W.H., 1922, MINES HANDBOOK, VOL. XV

  • Deposit

    WEED, W.H., 1921, MINES HANDBOOK, VOL XIV.

  • Deposit

    USGS MAP I-806

  • Deposit

    KLEINHAMPL, F.J., AND ZIONY, J.I., GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF NORTHERN NYE CO., NEV; NBMG BULL. IN PRESS.; NBMG BULL 99B, 1984.

  • Deposit

    QUADE, JACK, 1985, FIELD NOTES.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 2 QUARTZ VEINS, ONE OF WHICH YIELDED ORE VALUED AT $110/TON AT A 25-FT. DEPTH. VEINS BELIEVED TO BE EXTENSIONS OF THOSE ON ARROWHEAD MINE GROUND

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1981 La Pointe, D. D. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-JUL-1986 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Nevada resources

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