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El Dorado South Mine

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10044165
MRDS ID M231525
Record type Site
Current site name El Dorado South Mine
Alternate or previous names Independence Claim, Monitor Claim, Atlanta, El Dorado North
Related records 10271196

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.86313, 38.57882 (WGS84)
Elevation 2256
Relative position 1.37 MILES SE OF BELMONT TOWNSITE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Belmont East(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mount Jefferson(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Diamond-Monitor Valleys(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 Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 009N 045E 36 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Secondary
Copper Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Antimony Critical Tertiary
Molybdenum Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cerargyrite Ore
Copper Ore
Lead Ore
Stetefeldite Ore
Stromeyerite Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Wulfenite Gangue

Analytical data

Result 1860'S - ORE VALUED AT $150-$300 PER TON.

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 85
USGS model code 22c
Deposit model name Polymetallic veins
Mark3 model number 46

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate

Nearby scientific data

(1) Felsic phaneritic intrusive rocks
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N15W
    Dip 30NE OR STEEPER
    Width 1.83M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • The Ore Is Control By Bedding Planes With A Strike Of N15-20w, Dip 30-45 Ne.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Belmont District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Carter, Arthur N.
    Home office Lund
    First year 1951

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 609.6M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 425 FT INCLINE SHAFT WITH 2,000 FT OF LATERALS.

Comments on development

  • THE MINE WAS MOST DEVELOPED IN 1868 AT A SHALLOW LEVEL. IN 1959-60 SOME EXPLORATORY WORK WAS DONE AND ONE SHAFT WAS SUNK TO 1000 FT DEPTH. THE BELMONT MINE CO. EXPLORED A RICH ORE ZONE OFF THE 1000 FT LEVEL, BUT SHUT DOWN UNDERGROUND EXPLORATION IN 1960 IN FAVOR OF SURFACE DRILLING.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KLEINHAMPL, F.J. AND ZIONY, J.I., GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF NORTHERN NYE CO.: NEV. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, BULLETIN, IN PRESS.

  • Deposit

    NBMG BULL 50.

  • Production

    KRAL, 1951, P. 23

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit EL DORADA VEIN VEIN PINCHES AND SWELLS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1980 Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-1982 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) 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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