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Goldfield Merger Mines Co.

Past Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  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 10046710
MRDS ID M241910
Record type Site
Current site name Goldfield Merger Mines Co.
Alternate or previous names St. Ives, Velvet, Gold Horn, Potlatch Claims Part of Goldfield Deep Mines After 1920

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.21202, 37.71495 (WGS84)
Elevation 1768
Relative position A LITTLE OVER A MILE ENE OF GOLDFIELD

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Ralston-Stone Cabin Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Esmeralda

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 002S;003S 042E 36;01 S2 OF S2 (36); N2 (01) Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ADJOINS THE NE SIDE OF THE ATLANTA GROUP, AND THE NW SIDE OF THE BLUE BULL GROUP. UTM TO APPROXIMATE CENTER OF THE CLAIM BLOCK. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Alunite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification, Pyritization, Alunitization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Dacite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
    Chronological age 21.5
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Dacite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
    Chronological age 21.5

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.21202, 37.71495
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR TO IRREGULAR
    Strike NNE
    Dip VERTICAL TO 45 E
    Thickness 6.1M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fissures, Shattered Zones; Caldera Ring Fracture Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Goldfield District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Calumet And Hecla Consolidated Copper Co.
    First year 1935
    Last year 1938

Comments on the production information

  • SMALL PRODUCTION PRIOR TO 1908 MERGER CREDITED TO ST. IVES AND VELVET MINES, MOSTLY PRODUCED BY LESSEES IN 1904.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 160.32M

Comments on the workings information

  • IN 1905, ST. IVES WORKINGS CONSISTED OF A 250-FT VERTICAL SHAFT WITH LEVELS AT 50, 100, 150, AND 250 FT., CODD LEASE HAD A 500-FT SHAFT, WITH 100 FT OF STOPES ABOVE THE 50-FT LEVEL. VELVET MINE HAD THE 418-FT ALTA SHAFT AND THE 526-FT CHICAGO-VELVET SHAFT IN OPERATION IN 1908

Comments on development

  • IN JUNE 1908, ST. IVES, GOLD HORN, VELVET AND POTLATCH MINING COS. MERGED THEIR HOLDINGS. CALUMET AND HECLA CONSOLIDATED COPPER CO. IN 1935-1938 DISCOVERED A MODERATE-SIZED ORE BODY IN THE SHALLOW LEVELS OF THE MERGER

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    RANSOME, F.L., 1909, USGS P.P. 66, P. 239-241

  • Deposit

    NBMG REPORT 33, P. 77-86.

  • Deposit

    WEED, W.H., ED., 1922, THE MINES HANDBOOK, VOL. XV, P. 1213.

  • Production

    RANSOME, F.L., 1909, P 239-241.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ST. IVES LEDGE BRANCHES AND COALESCES. ORE BODIES WERE SMALL AND IRREGULAR.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1982 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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

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