Last Hope Mine

Past Producer in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Iron, Manganese
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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037629
MRDS ID M035744
Record type Site
Current site name Last Hope Mine
Alternate or previous names Nevada Rand Property
Related records 10310399

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.39985, 38.78631 (WGS84)
Elevation 1707
Relative position 15 MILES N 40 E FROM THORNE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Copper Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Gabbs Valley(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 011N 032E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ESTIMATE LOCATION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Iron Tertiary
Manganese Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • AVE. ASSAY FOR BOTH LEVELS OF WORKINGS WAS 3.4 FT OF $12.10 ORE IN 1913 ; VALUE OF AU TO AG ABOUT THE SAME

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.39985, 38.78631

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENTICULAR REPL. BODIES/SHOOTS

Controls for ore emplacement

  • 1 To 8 Ft Wide Mineralized Zone Lies 30 Ft From Contact In Soft, Crushed Andesite

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORE IS A SOFT, CRUSHED ANDESITE, HEAVILY STAINED WITH FE AND MN, WIITH OCCASIONAL STRINGERS AND NODULES OF MN-STAINED QTZ. LENGTH OF ORE SHOOT WAS 75 FT.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Bovard - Rand

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner C. Koegel, C. Huber, J. L. Pike

Comments on the production information

  • AS OF 1913 , 300 TONS OF $30/TON ORE HAD BEEN SHIPPED

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 457.2M
    Overall depth 60.96M

Comments on the workings information

  • X CUT 150' FROM MAIN SHAFT UNDER STOPE, RAISE TO ORE SHOOT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SIRDEVAN, W. H., 1913 , REPORT ON THE LAST HOPE MINE, UNPUBLISHED, NEV. BUREAU OF MINES FILE

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PROPERTY COMPRISES 3 FULL CLAIMS AND TWO FRACTIONS. THE GROUP COVERS ABOUT 3000 FT ALONG GRANODIORITE-ANDESITE CONTACT CLAIM PART OF NEVADA RAND GROUP, REFER TO RECORD NO. M035744 ; INFO.SRC : 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

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

Authoritative Nevada resources

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