Santa Clara Mine

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10042514
MRDS ID M060332
Record type Site
Current site name Santa Clara Mine
Related records 10150055

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.13069, 40.57211 (WGS84)
Elevation 1981
Relative position IN SANTA CLARA CANYON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pershing(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Star Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Eugene Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Dixie Valley(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 Pershing

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 031N 034E 11 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ABOUT 2 MI S OF TEHAMA MINE; UTM APPROX.; PREVIOUS QUAD DESIGNATION = IMLAY (1956) 1:625000

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bournonite Ore
Freibergite Ore
Galena Ore
Gold Ore

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 273
USGS model code 36a
Deposit model name Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein
Mark3 model number 27

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.13069, 40.57211

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description American Basin Fault

Ore body information

  • General form VEIN
    Width 0.3M

Comments on the geologic information

  • A FISSURE VEIN 6 TO 12 INCHES WIDE FORMED BY FILLING AND REPLACEMENT ALONG A NARROW SHEETED ZONE IN RHYOLITE. THE VEIN AND SHEETED ZONE ROUGHLY PARALLELS THE MAJOR FAULT ZONE WHICH TRAVERSES SANTA CLARA CANYON BELOW THE PROSPECT.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Star District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit A FISSURE VEIN 6 TO 12 INCHES WIDE FORMED BY FILLING AND REPLACEMENT ALONG A NARROW SHEETED ZONE IN MAYOLITE. THE VEIN AND SHEETED ZONE ROUGHLY PARALLEL THE MAJOR FAULT ZONE THAT TRAVERSES SANTA CLARA CANYON BELOW THE PROSPECT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1973 Johnson, Maureen G. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-JAN-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.

External references

Authoritative Nevada resources

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