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Nevada Hills Mine

Past Producer in Churchill county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Antimony, Zinc
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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. Geologic structures
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10043735
MRDS ID M231007
Record type Site
Current site name Nevada Hills Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.17013, 39.2413 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Churchill(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bell Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Fallon(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Reno(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 Churchill

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
016N 034E 17,20 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Antimony Critical Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Argentite Ore
Bromyrite Ore
Cerargyrite Ore
Electrum Ore
Galena Ore
Polybasite Ore
Pyrargyrite Ore
Silver Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Stephanite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation To 300 Ft.

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 Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Dacite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Faults

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Quartz Veins

Comments on the geologic information

  • THREE OR MORE PERIODS OF MINERALIZATION HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Fairview District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • THE WORKINGS EXPLORE NORTHWEST-TRENDING VEINS IN OR NEAR THE BORDER OF A DACITE INTRUSIVE BODY THAT CUTS SILICIC TUFFS. THE VEINS CONSIST LARGELY OF QUARTZ VEINS WHOSE WIDTH VARIES FROM 1 TO 40 FEET. SOME OF THE VEINS PINCH OUT UPWARD AND DO NOT CROP OUT; MOST PINCH OUT: OR BECAME BARREN DOWNWARD. THE MOST PRODUCTIVE VEINS WERE THE NEVADA HILLS VEIN AND THE EAGLE VEIN. (WILLDEN AND SPEED, P 73) SCHRADER (1947) GIVES AN EXTRAORDINARILY DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THIS DEPOSIT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WILLDEN, RONALD, AND SPEED, R C, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF CHURCHILL COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL 83

  • Deposit

    SCHRADER, F C, UNPUBLISHED REPORT ON THE CARSON SINK AREA, NEVADA, 1947, NBMG FILES

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1980 Flynn, Patricia Dodd Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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