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Lucy Grey Mine

Past Producer in Clark county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Lead, 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. 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. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037145
MRDS ID M031015
Record type Site
Current site name Lucy Grey Mine
Related records 10173901

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.27639, 35.54944 (WGS84)
Elevation 1097
Relative position 2 MILES E OF CA/NEV. BORDER WEST OF LUCY GRAY RANGE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Clark(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Desert(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mesquite Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Kingman(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Ivanpah-Pahrump 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 Clark

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
027S 060E 33 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary
Lead Secondary
Copper Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.27639, 35.54944
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Late Tert And Recent Normal Faults

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORE IS IN FE STAINED FRACTURES CUTTING ACROSS THE QUARTZ IN AN ELLIPTICAL BRECCIA PIPE WHERE THE GNEISS IS BROKEN IN ANGULAR BLOCKS CEMENTED BY VEINS OF COMB QUARTZ.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Sunset (Lyons) District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION SINCE 1905 ESTIMATED AT $50,000 , MAINLY FROM GOLD. THE GRADE OF THE MINED ORE FLUCTUATED. FORTY TONS FROM 1913 - 1916 YIELDED $68 IN GOLD AND $9.70 AG PER TON.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 335.28M
    Overall depth 91.44M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HEWETT, 1956 , GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES, IVANPAH QUAD., USGS PROF PAPER 275 P. 128 .

  • Deposit

    LONGWELL, C. R., PAMPEYAN, E. H., BOWYER, B., ROBERTS, R. J., 1965 , GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF CLARK CO. NEV. BUR. OF MINES BULL. 62 P. 202 .

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LUCY GREY MINE COMPRISES 9 UNPATENTED CLAIMS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1979 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.

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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