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Vanderbilt Mine

Past Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Gold, Copper
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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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  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 10104123
MRDS ID M242343
Record type Site
Current site name Vanderbilt Mine
Alternate or previous names Hillside Mining Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.66509, 37.75772 (WGS84)
Elevation 1707
Relative position ABOUT 1.8 AIRMILES N83W OF TOWN OF SILVER PEAK.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Silver Peak(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)

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
Mount Diablo 002S 039E 21,20 NW OF NW (21); NE OF NE (20) Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ON SE SIDE OF HEAD OF GULCH JUST SE OF VANDERBILT PEAK. UTM IS TO THE MAIN SHAFT OF SEVERAL WORKINGS IN MINE AREA ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Secondary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Biotite Gangue
Microcline Gangue
Muscovite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Wyman Formation
    Rock description Wyman
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.66509, 37.75772
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Faults Cut Ore

Ore body information

  • General form LENSES
    Strike N60E
    Dip 20SE
    Length 402.33M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Bedding Planes

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1864
Discoverer W.J. And R.H. Robinson
Year of first production 1865

Mining district

District name Silver Peak District (1865) ; Mineral Ridge District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • AN 1878 REPORT STATES THAT THE VANDERBILT WAS PRODUCING $100/TON ORE. SPURR (1906) ASCRIBED $200,000 WORTH OF SILVER PRODUCTION TO THE POCATELLO AND VANDERBILT MINES COMBINED.

Comments on the workings information

  • OPEN CUTS, TUNNELS

Comments on development

  • ONE OF THE FIRST CLAIMS STAKED IN THE DISTRICT AND THE FIRST ON WHICH MINING TOOK PLACE. OWNED BY THE GREAT SALT BASIN MINING AND MILLING CO. IN 1865; INCORPORATED AS THE SILVER PEAK AND RED MOUNTAIN GOLD AND SILVER CO. IN 1866. PATENT WAS ISSUED IN 1879

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE IS CONTROLLED BY QUARTZ LENSES AND PROXIMITY TO GREENSTONE DIKES WHERE IT MAY OCCUR ALONG BOTH HANGING WALL AND FOOTWALL OF THE DIKE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1981 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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