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Jack Pot Mine

Past Producer in Churchill 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. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10043761
MRDS ID M231040
Record type Site
Current site name Jack Pot Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.06013, 39.46769 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Churchill(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Wonder Mountain(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
Mount Diablo 019N 03SE 32 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Argentite Ore
Gold Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation

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 > Rhyolite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Dacite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.06013, 39.46769
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N80W
    Dip 80N

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Contact Between Dacite & Rhyolite

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Wonder

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • THE MINE IS OPENED TO A DEPTH OF 960 FEET AND HAS MORE THAN 6,000 FEET OF DEVELOPMENT WORK. THE VEINS ARE AT OR NEAR THE CONTACT OF RHYOLITE AND INTRUDED DACITE AND ARE COMPOSED MOSTLY OF STAINED, OXIDIZED, ERUSHED MATERIAL. THE ORE HAS A HIGH PSILOMELANE CONTENT, AND THIS MANGANOUS ORE IS DURIFEROUS AND OCCURS ON THE HANGING WALL SIDE OF THE VEIN. THE VEINS ARE GENERALLY NARROW. GOLD AND SILVER OCCUR IN A 1:5 RATIO WITH AN INCREASE OF GOLD AT DEPTH.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SCHRADER, F.C., UNPUBLISHED REPORT ON THE CARSON SINK AREA, NEVADA, 1947: NBMG FILE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-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.