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Sunrise Mine

Past Producer in Mineral 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. 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. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037596
MRDS ID M035591
Record type Site
Current site name Sunrise Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.07761, 38.51936 (WGS84)
Elevation 2109
Relative position APPROX. 6 MI. EAST OF LUNING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sunrise Flat(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Walker Lake(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)

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 Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 008N 035E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ESTIMATE LOCATION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Argentite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation,Fe-Staining,Silcification

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.07761, 38.51936
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Thrusting Induced By Magmatic Intrusion; Brecciation?

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Ore Occurs In Quartz Filling Fissure Veins In Limestone

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORE INCLUDED IN ALMOST PURE QUARTZ GANGUE, E-W SHEAR IN LIMESTONE, DIPS 80 DEGREES S., 4 FT WIDE IN PLACES. SAMPLE TAKEN BY NBMG IN 1989. HILL STATES THAT VERTICAL "FRACTURES" IN LIMESTONE TREND NW.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Production years 1883, AMT. UNKNOWN

Mining district

District name Santa Fe

Comments on the production information

  • UNSPECIFIED PRODUCTION

Comments on the workings information

  • 100 FT. SHAFT WITH CROSSCUTS, CAVED ADIT, THAT INTERCEPTS THE SHAFT AT THE 50 FT. LEVEL.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CLARK, C. W., 1922 , GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE SANTA FE DISTRICT, MINERAL CO., NEV., UNIV. OF CA. PUB., VOL. 14 , NO. 1, P.4

  • Deposit

    NBMG UNPUBLISHED MINING DISTRICT FILES, SANTA FE DISTRICT, JACK QUADE SITE REPORT.

  • Deposit

    HILL, J.M., 1915, SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN NORTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA AND NORTHWESTERN NEVADA, USGS BULL. 594

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SILVER GRADE REPORTED TO BE HIGH. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1979 Fiebelkorn, J. B. (Stewart, J. H.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1990 Marcus, Susan U.S. Geological Survey

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