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Clipper Mine

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10044276
MRDS ID M231668
Record type Site
Current site name Clipper Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.77424, 38.32466 (WGS84)
Elevation 2304
Relative position 1.15 MILES N-NE OF ROCKY PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Saulsbury Basin(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Warm Springs(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Ralston-Stone Cabin Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 006N 046E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ESTIMATED LOCATION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Analytical data

Result ORES ASSAYED AT $38 TO $317 PER TON IN GOLD AND SILVER WITH A ONE TO ONE RATIO.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff > Welded Tuff
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.77424, 38.32466
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • No Information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1903
Discoverer Charles Ira Francher

Mining district

District name Longstreet District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Rawlings, Louise May
    Home office Fresno, Ca
  • Type Owner
    Owner Fancher, Ira D.
    Home office Reno, Nv

Comments on the production information

  • A TOTAL OF $12,000 WAS PRODUCED.

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 180 FT SHAFT, A 400 FT ADIT, AND A 30 FT WINZE.

Comments on development

  • WORKED INTERMITTENTLY FROM 1903 TO ABOUT 1943. MAIN DEVELOPMENT OCCURRED ABOUT WWI. SOME ORE SHIPMENTS WERE MADE IN 1929.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KRAL, V.E., 1951, MINERAL RESOURCES OF NYE CO.: NEV. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOL., BULL. 50, P. 100

  • 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.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-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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