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Wildcat Mine

Producer in Pershing county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, 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. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10042429
MRDS ID M060223
Record type Site
Current site name Wildcat Mine
Alternate or previous names Monarch Mines, Monarch Group, S. S. Claims, Warmoth, NBMG Sample Sites 1482, 1484, 1485, 2810, 2811, 2812, Patente-D Claims Big Hero, Little Hero, Wildcat, Jaybird.
Related records 10247664, 10310463

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.75599, 40.54239 (WGS84)
Relative position 2 MI. N OF FARRELL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pershing(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Juniper Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Eugene Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Granite Springs Valley(hydrologic unit)

Truckee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Lahontan(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 Pershing

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 031N 029E 17 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UTM GIVEN IS THAT FOR SAMPLE SITES 1484 AND 2811 AT ONE CENTRALLY LOCATED SHAFT AMID THE MANY WORKINGS SCATTERED O-VER A 500 M RADIUS. GOOD ACCESS BY NEWLY DOZED ROAD.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification, Bleaching, Kaolinization

Analytical data

Result SETTLEMENT ASSAY-0.655 OZ. AU, 4.05 OZ. AG. SAMPLE 1482 CONTAINS 5 % FE, 0.5 % MG, 0.05 % CA, 0.1 % TI, 70 PPM MN, 150 PPM AG,200 PPM AS, 50 PPM AU, 50 PPM -B, 500 PPM BA, 2PPM BE, 20 PPM CR, 70 PPM CU, 20 PPM MO, 7 PPM- NI, 10 PPM PB, 5 PPM SC, 100 PPM SR, 50 PPM V, 50 PPM W, 20 P-PM ZR.
Result SAMPLE 1484 CONTAINS 1 % FE, 0.03 % MG, 0.05 % CA, 0.1 -% TI, 20 PPM MN, 300 PPM AG, 200 PPM AS, 50 PPM B, 500 PPM BA,- 2 PPM BE, 10 PPM CR, 30 PPM CU, 5 PPM MO, 5 PPM NI, 10 PPM PB-, 200 PPM SB, 50 PPM W, 30 PPM Y, 70 PPM ZR.
Result NBMG SAMPLE 1485 -CONTAINS 1 % FE, 0.1 % MG, 0.05 % CA, 0.01 % TI, 20 PPM MN, 7-0 PPM AG, 30 PPM B, 500 PPM BA, 2 PPM BE, 10 PPM CR, 20 PPM CU-, 70 PPM MO, 7 PPM NI, 10 PPM V,
Result SAMPLE 2810 CONTAINS 2 % FE,-0.05 % MG, 0.05 % CA, 0.1 % TI,20PPM MN, 150 PPM AG, 300 PPM A-S, 20 PPM B, 700 PPM BA, 2 PPM BE, 10 PPM CR, 50 PPM CU, 70 PP-M MO, 7 PPM NI, 100 PPM PB, 100 PPM SB, 100 PPM SR, 15 PPM V, -10 PPM Y, 100 PPM ZR.
Result SAMPLE 2811 CONTAINS 1 % FE, 0.07 % MG, -0.05 % CA, 0.002 % TI, 15 PPM MN, 20 PPM AG, 20 PPM B, 150 PPM- BA, 3 PPM BE, 10 PPM CR, 7 PPM CU, 70 PPM MO, 7 PPM NI, 10 PP-M PB, 100 PPM SR, 15 PPM V, 1000 PPM ZN.
Result SAMPLE 2812 CONTAINS -2 % FE, 0.1 % MG, 0.05 % CA, 0.05 % TI, 20 PPM MN, 100 PPM AG,- 300 PPM AS, 20 PPM B, 500 PPM BA, 5 PPM BE, 10 PPM CR, 15 PPM- CU, 5 PPM MO, 10 PPM NI, 10 PPM PB, 700 PPM SR, 30 PPM V, 50 -PPM W, 6 PPM AU. 2811 HAD 1.7 PPM AU, 2810 HAD 0.6 PPM AU (AA

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 150
USGS model code 25c
Deposit model name Epithermal vein, Comstock
Mark3 model number 16

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Mafic Volcanic Rock > Basalt
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.75599, 40.54239
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N55E
    Dip 80NW

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zone N55e.80nw

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORE DEPOSITS OCCUR IN A NETWORK OF VEINS & VEINLETS PARALLELING DIKES AND FISSURES IN RHYOLITES. THEY HAVE A GENERAL N-S TREND BUT THE VEIN SYSTEM IS CROSSED BY FAULTS AND CROSS STRINGERS. VEINS CONSIST OF SOFT CRUSHED MATERIAL, ZONES OF BRECCIATION FILLED WITH QUARTZ.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1921
Year of first production 1921

Mining district

District name Farrell District (1907); Stonehouse District (1863);Part Of Seven Troughs District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Warmoth, G. W.
    First year 1936
  • Type Owner
    Owner Homestake Mining Co.
    First year 1936
  • Type Operator
    Owner Touchstone Resources
    Home office Salt Lake City, Ut
    First year 1984

Comments on the production information

  • ONE SHIPMENT AVERAGED 0.655 OZ AU/TON AND 4.05 OZ AG

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL SHAFTS, ADITS, CUTS, MILL FOUNDATIONS, PROSPECTS SCATTERED OVER SEVERAL SQUARE MILES

Comments on development

  • CLAIM NOTICES DATED 1982. IN SEPT 1984, AREA WAS BEING DRILLED BY TOUCHSTONE RESOURCES WITH NEW ROADS AND DRILL PA-DS ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN. HOMESTAKE MINING CO- HOLDS THE GROUND BUT IS LEASING IT TO TOUCHSTONE OF SALT LAKE- CITY.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, M.G., 1977, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA; NBMG BULL. 89

  • Deposit

    VANDERBURG, 1936, RECONNAISSANCE OF MINING DISTRICTS IN PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA; USBM IC 6902, P. 13-14

  • Deposit

    MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES 1921, PART 1 METALS; USBM, P. 394-5

  • Deposit

    TINGLEY, J. V., 6 JUN 84, NBMG FIELD EXAMINATION AND SAMPLE ANALYSES

  • Deposit

    QUADE, JACK, 4 SEP 84, NBMG FIELD EXAMINATION AND SAMPLE ANALYSES.

  • Production

    VANDERBURG, 1936.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit WORKINGS AT THE WILDCAT SHAFT (UPPER) EXPOSE N55E, 80 NW SHEAR ZONE WHICH CUTS HIGHLY KAOLINIZED RHYOLITE. RHYOLIT-IC BRECCIAS OUTCROP TO EAST OF MINE AREA. BRECCIAS EXPOSED ON -PEAKS AND RIDGES TO THE EAST RESEMBLE FLOW BRECCIAS RATHER THA-N INTRUSIVE OR HYDROTHERMAL BRECCIAS; ALL ARE, HOWEVER, SILICI-FIED. IN OUTCROP THE BRECCIAS FORM ELONGATE RIDGES PARALLEL TO- SILICIFIED SHEAR ZONES. PODS OF WHITE CHALCEDONIC QUARTZ ARE -SEEN IN SOME BRECCIAS. VEIN MATERIAL AT THE WILDCAT DUMP CONTA-INS DARK BANDS OF FINE-GRAINED SULFIDES AND SOME FREE GOLD, TH-E VEIN BEING COMPOSED OF BRECCIATED CHALLEDONIC QUARTZ CEMENTE-D BY SILICA. SE OF THE WILDCAT SHAFT,AT SAMPLE SITE 1482, OLD -WORKINGS EXPOSE A N30W, 75NE SHEAR ZONE IN ALTERED GRANODIORIT-E WALLROCK LACED WITH RANDOMLY ORIENTED FE-OXIDE STAINED FRACT-URES; ROCK IS KAOLINIZED. FLOW ROCK SEEN AT UPPER WILDCAT SHAF-T OVERLIES THE GRANODIORITE (OR THE RHYOLITE MAY BE PLUGS CUTT-ING GRANODIORITE. SAMPLE 2810 WAS FROM AN ADIT AND DUMP IN THE-
Deposit UPPER RHYOLITE BRECCIA. SAMPLE 2811 WAS FROM A DUMP NEAR A SH-AFT ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN. SAMPLE 2812 WAS FROM AD-ITS COLLARED IN GRANODIORITE, BUT NEAR THE CONTACT WITH THE OV-ERLYING RHYOLITE. THIS LAST SAMPLE HAD SOME CHERTIFIED CONTACT-MATERIAL WITH WISPY LENSES OF FREE GOLD IN A MATRIX OF SILVER -SULFIDES, ETC..

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1979 Harner, Joy L. (Roberts, Ralph J.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-SEP-1985 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-FEB-1981 Royse, Sue E. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-SEP-1994 Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

  • Homestake Mining Co. — acquired by Subsidiary of Barrick Gold (2001)
    Operator of the historic Homestake Mine in South Dakota; acquired by Barrick Gold in 2001.

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.

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