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White Horse Mine

Past Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodity Clay
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046822
MRDS ID M242036
Record type Site
Current site name White Horse Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.83649, 37.51494 (WGS84)
Elevation 1804
Relative position 0.8 MILE BY ROAD NORTH OF THE OASIS-SILVER PEAK ROAD

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Oasis Divide(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Fish Lake-Soda Spring 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 Esmeralda

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
005S 037E 11 S2 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • AT SOUTH END OF SILVER PEAK RANGE, NEAR UPPER END OF A SOUTH-DRAINING CANYON ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Clay Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • BETTER QUALITY ORE IS FINE GRAINED, LIGHT GREENISH GRAY, PARTLY BROKEN TO A FINE-GRAINED FLAKY MATERIAL.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chlorite Ore
Quartz Gangue
Sericite Gangue

Analytical data

Result ORE CONSISTS OF CHLORITE WITH MINOR SERICITE AND QUARTZ

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.83649, 37.51494
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 9.14M
    Length 18.29M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1938
Discoverer Alma Coulon
Year of first production 1937

Mining district

District name Palmetto (Near Windy Pah) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 33.53M
    Overall depth 9.14M

Comments on the workings information

  • 30-FT SHAFT INCLINED 45 N, AND 2 ADJACENT ADITS INCLINED GENTLY NORTHWARD, TOTALLING 119 FT. IN LENGTH

Comments on development

  • SEVERAL HUNDRED TONS ORE WERE PRODUCED IN EARLY YEARS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PAPKE, K.G., 1975, NBMG BULL 84, P. 14

  • Production

    PAPKE, K.G., 1975, P. 14.

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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