1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Lucky Hill Mine

Past Producer in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Gold, Lead, Iron
Map
XML
JSON
KML
B
Sections on this page
  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. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Geologic structures
  13. Ore body information
  14. Controls for ore emplacement
  15. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  16. Mining district
  17. Land status
  18. Ownership information
  19. Workings at the site
  20. Links to other databases
  21. Bibliographic references
  22. General comments
  23. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037550
MRDS ID M035492
Record type Site
Current site name Lucky Hill Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.08983, 38.14937 (WGS84)
Elevation 1902
Relative position SECOND RIDGE SOUTH OF CANDELARIA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Candelaria(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Excelsior Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 003N 035E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • .4 MILES WEST OF MT. DIABLO MINE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Secondary
Lead Secondary
Iron Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ORE IS SOFT AND FRIABLE, HIGHLY OXIDIZED, BLACK WHERE OXIDE OF MANGANESE PREDOMINATES, YELLOWISH RED WHERE LIMONITE PREDOMINATES, AND DULL DIRTY BROWN WHERE THESE OXIDES ARE EVENLY DISSEMINATED

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 75
USGS model code 19c
Deposit model name Distal disseminated Ag-Au
Mark3 model number 18

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Argillite
    Rock unit name Candelaria Formation;
    Rock description Candelaria Formation;
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Palmetto Formation;Palmetto Formation;Palmetto Formation;Palmetto Formation;
    Rock description Palmetto Formation;Palmetto Formation;Palmetto Formation;Palmetto Formation;

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.08983, 38.14937
ListMap

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Reservoir Fault Branches Repeatedly Or Cuts Off Impinging Faults Which Strike Ne

Ore body information

  • General form RESTRICTED SHOOTS
    Strike EAST
    Dip 65 - 70 N
    Width 6.1M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Veins Encased In Intensely Altered Rock Within A Few Hundred Feet Of Diablo Grit Bed

Comments on the geologic information

  • BOTH VEINS ARE VIRTUALLY ENCASED IN A ROUGHLY TABULAR ENVELOPE OF DOLOMITIZED ROCK ABOUT 300 FEET THICK.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1875

Mining district

District name Candelaria

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Argentum Mining Co.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • VEINS CUT OFF BY FAULTS AT DEPTH. DETERMINE CHARACTER AND MAGNITUDE OF FAULT DISPLACEMENTS, IN THE HOPE OF FINDING MISSING SEGMENTS OF FAULTED VEINS

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 129.54M
    Overall depth 82.3M

Comments on the workings information

  • EXTENSIVE UNDERGROUND WORKINGS AND TWO 75 FT. LONG SURFACE GLORY HOLES

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KNOPF, ADOLF, 1922 , THE CANDELARIA SILVER DISTRICT, NEV., CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, USGS, BULL 735

  • Deposit

    PAGE, B. M., 1959 , GEOLOGY OF THE CANDELARIA MINING DISTRICT, MINERAL CO., NEV., NEV. BUREAU OF MINES BULL. 56

  • Deposit

    ROSS, D. C., 1961 , GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF MINERAL CO., NEV., NEV. BUREAU OF MINES, BULL. 58

  • Deposit

    1922 RECON KNOPF, ADOLF BULL. 735 PP 1 - 23

  • Deposit

    1923 RECON NEV. NEWSLETTER PUB. CO. PP 137 - 157

  • Deposit

    1959 RECON NEV. BUREAU OF MINES BULL. 56

  • Deposit

    1961 RECON NEV. BUREAU OF MINES BULL. 58

  • Production

    PAGE F2

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Discovery Year: 1870'S
Deposit TWO VEINS OCCUR - MAIN VEIN & BALDWIN VEIN
Deposit ONE OF THE THREE MOST PRODUCTIVE MINES IN THE DISTRICT, THE LUCKY HILL IS ONE OF THE OLDEST MINES YET LITTLE WORK HAD BEEN DONE PRIOR TO 1920. MUCH OF THE PRODUCTION DURING THE EARLY 20'S CONSISTED OF OLD FILL RECOVERED FROM STOPES

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1978 Fiebelkorn, J. B. (Stewart, J. H.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

External references

Maps centered on this site

Authoritative Nevada resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.