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Nevada Crown Mine

Past Producer in Churchill county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Gold
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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. Alteration
  8. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10043736
MRDS ID M231009
Record type Site
Current site name Nevada Crown Mine
Alternate or previous names Gold Crown, Port and Sampson

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.19346, 39.15741 (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)

Federal lands

DOD(Federal land areas administered by DOD)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Churchill

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 015N 034E Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Primary

Alteration

  • (Local) Chloritization; Silicification

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) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.19346, 39.15741
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Fairview District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • COUNTRY ROCK IS CHLORITIZED AND SILICIFIED ANDESITC. THE ZONE OF MINERALIZATION RUNS NORTH-SOUTH AND IS PROBABLY THE SAME ZONE AS AT THE NEVADA FAIRVIEW MINE. MANY ENCOURAGING PROSPECTS ARE SAID TO HAVE BEEN FOUND ON THE PROPERTY, MOST OF THEM RUNNING HIGH IN SILVER AND GOLD AND CONTAINING MUCH FREE GOLD. THE MAIN DEVELOPMENT IS A 600-FT TUNNEL RUNNING N 35 DEG E AND A 250-FT SHAFT. SINCE PRE-TERTIARY SCHIST CROPS OUT NEAR THE MINE THE HOST ANDESITE IS CONCLUDED TO BE THIN. THERE MAY, HOWEVER BE ORE DEPOSITS IN THE PRE-TERTIARY ROCKS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • 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.

External references

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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