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Exchequer Tunnel

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037276
MRDS ID M031239
Record type Site
Current site name Exchequer Tunnel
Related records 10135416

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.01005, 39.93687 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ninemile Well(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Newark Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ely(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Long-Ruby 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 White Pine

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
24N 63E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • EST

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.01005, 39.93687
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Pluton Of Monzonite And Quartz Monzonite
Type of structure Local
Structure description Faults

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORE SHOOT 2-3 FEET WIDE, UP TO 8 FEET IN PLACES.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Cherry Creek (Egan Canyon)

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 243.84M
    Overall depth 56.69M

Comments on the workings information

  • ORE SHOOT 600 FEET ALONG THE TUNNEL

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HILL, JAMES M. 1916 NOTES ON SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN EASTERN NEVADA, U.S. GEO. BULL. 648

  • Production

    HILL 1916

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE ORE SHOOT IS SAID TO HAVE EXTENDED FOR 600 FT ALONG THE TUNNEL LEVEL AND TO HAVE BEEN 2 TO 3 FT WIDE, EXPINDED TO 8 FT IN PLACES. NEAR THE SHAFT THE VEIN SPLITS, BUT REUNITES 100 FT WEST. THE VEIN IS THE SAME AS THAT WORKED IN THE NEW CENTURY TUNNEL. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1979 Giorgi, Albert John (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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