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Thanksgiving Mine

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodity 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. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  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 10044300
MRDS ID M231697
Record type Site
Current site name Thanksgiving Mine
Alternate or previous names Orphant Patented Claim and Thanksgiving Fraction

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.08259, 38.54215 (WGS84)
Elevation 2128
Relative position BETWEEN RELIANCE AND GOLD METALS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Manhattan(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ione Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Southern Big Smoky Valley(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management NV)

Bureau of Land Management NV BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 008N 044E 19 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Hydrothermal Alteration Of Rhyolite

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Gold Hill (Upper Part)
    Rock description Gold Hill (Upper Part)

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.08259, 38.54215
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form PIPE-LIKE SHOOTS
    Dip VERTICAL
    Length 15.24M
    Width 4.27M
    Depth to top 68.88M
    Depth to bottom 99.36M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Along A Fault.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1906

Mining district

District name Manhattan District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Thanksgiving Reorganized Mining Co.

Comments on the production information

  • THE LITTLE GRAY VEIN PRODUCED ABOUT $5,000. THE THANKSGIVING VEIN PRODUCED ABOUT $3,299.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 304.8M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 450 FT 65-70 DEG INCLINE SHAFT, AN 80 FT SHAFT.

Comments on development

  • WORK ON THE THANKSGIVING VEIN BEGAN ABOUT 1910 AND A SHAFT WAS SUNK AND THEN ABANDONED SOON AFTER. IN 1937, RELIANCE MINING CO UNWATERED AND SAMPLED WORKINGS AND CONNECTED THE 200-FT LEVEL WITH THE MUSTANG SHAFT. IN 1946, THE JEFFERSON LAKE SULPHUR CO UNWATERED SHAFT AGAIN AND SAMPLED WORKINGS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KRAL, V.E., 1951, MINERAL RESOURCES OF NYE CO.: NEV. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOL., BULL. 50, P. 120-121

  • Deposit

    FERGUSON, H.G., 1924, GEOL. AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE MANHATTAN DISTRICT: USGS BULL 723, P. 146.

  • Production

    KRAL, 1951, P. 121.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LITTLE GRAY VEIN, THANKSGIVING VEIN

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1980 Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAY-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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