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Don Daleminemine

Past Producer in Lincoln county in Nevada, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, 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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037343
MRDS ID M032024
Record type Site
Current site name Don Daleminemine
Alternate or previous names Blue Bird Claims, NBMG Sample Locations 1468 & 1469.
Related records 10174153

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.73309, 37.5369 (WGS84)
Elevation 2085
Relative position 2 MILES S OF ANDIES MINE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tempiute Mountain South(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Timpahute Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Caliente(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Sand Spring-Tikaboo 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 Lincoln

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
0045 55E 34 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UTM'S APPROXIMATED, AREA UNSURVEYED ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Copper Ore
Galena Ore
Malachite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Porphyry Is Bleached, Argillically Altered.

Analytical data

Result SAMPLES 1468 AND 1469 CONTAIN, RESPECTIVELY, 10 AND 2 % FE, 200 PPM MN, 7 PPM AG, 0 AND 200 PPM AS, 500 AND 150 PPM BA, 2000 AND 30 PPM CU, 7000 AND 200 PPM PB, 500 AND 0 PPM SB, 1000 AND 300 PPM ZN, 300 AND 200 PPM ZR.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Pioche Shale;Prospect Mountain Quartzite
    Rock description Pioche Shale;Prospect Mountain Quartzite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Fractures

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fractures; Contact Of Porphyry With Shale

Comments on the geologic information

  • MINE FOLLOWS A N 65 E TRENDING VEIN, WITH ORE MINERALS INA QUARTZ GANGUE ORE MINERALS ARE CONFINED TO THE VEIN AND TO A SET OF NS CROSS FRACTURES WITH 40 - 60 E DIP. DISSEMINATED COPPER CARBONATES CONTAINED IN QUARTZ MONZONITE PORPHYRY.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1946

Mining district

District name Don Dale

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • ORE SHOOT MINED TO DEPTH OF 40 FEET. THE LAST 10 FEET OF A 120 FOOT ADIT CUT INTO QUARTZ MONZONITE . IN 1983, SEVERAL SURFACE CUTS, PROSPECT PITS, DOZER SCRAPINGS ALONG E- AND W-FACING SLOPES OF CANYON. . IN 1983, SEVERAL SURFACE CUTS, PROSPECT PITS, DOZER SCRAPINGS ALONG E- AND W-FACING SLOPES OF CANYON.

Comments on development

  • DISTRICT WAS ORGANIZED IN 1945, BUT THE MINE WAS FORMERLY INCLUDED IN TEMPIUTE DISTRICT. NO ACTIVITY IN 1983; LAST CLAIM NOTICE WAS DATED 1964.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TSCHANZ CM & PAMPEYAN EH, 1970, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF LINCOLN COUNTY NEV BUR MINES BULL 73

  • Deposit

    BENSON, WT, 1945, U.S BUR OF MINES, WRITTEN COMMUNICATION

  • Deposit

    SMITH, P. AND BENTZ, J., 1983 FIELD EXAMINATION.

  • Production

    TSCHANTZ AND PAMPEYAN, 1970

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1980 Harner, Joy L. (Roberts, Ralph J.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1984 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) U.S. Geological Survey

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