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Magnolia Vein

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Gold, Lead, Antimony, Tin, Arsenic, Zinc
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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. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10044310
MRDS ID M231707
Record type Site
Current site name Magnolia Vein
Alternate or previous names Keyser Mine, Morey Mine, Magnolia Mine, Lower Magnolia Adit, Upper Magnolia Adit, Kaiser Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.25896, 38.66938 (WGS84)
Elevation 2274
Relative position JUST NORTH OF THE MOREY TOWNSITE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Morey Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mount Jefferson(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Hot Creek-Railroad 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 009N 051E 05 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED TOWNSHIP AND RANGE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Primary
Lead Primary
Antimony Critical Tertiary
Tin Critical Tertiary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Alabandite Ore
Cassiterite Ore
Galena Ore
Jamesonite Ore
Pyrargyrite Ore
Stephanite Ore
Stibnite Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Rhodochrosite Gangue
Sericite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation Of Sulfides; Mild Sericitization Of Wallrock, Propylitic Outward.

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.25896, 38.66938
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description An East-West Trending Shear Zone.

Ore body information

  • Strike E-W
    Dip SOUTH

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE VEIN IS EXTENSIVELY SEGMENTED BY MINOR NORTH TO NORTHWEST STRIKING NORMAL FAULTS. MT AIRY VEIN MAY BE A FAULTED SEGMENT OF THE MAGNOLIA VEIN. N TO NW-STRIKING NORMAL FAULTS SEGMENT VEINS WITH SOME RIGHT LATERAL DISPLACEMENT.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Morey District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Comments on the production information

  • $462,972 WAS PRODUCED BETWEEN 1865 TO 1940 IN SILVER, GOLD, AND LEAD. ABOUT 45 TONS WERE SHIPPED IN 1936 DURING THE VASSAR LEASE, CONTAINING A MINIMUM OF 0.115 OZ/TON AU AND 71.85 TO 84.8 OZ/TON AG (THIS CAME FROM BELOW THE KEYSER TUNNEL). IN 1950 A SUBLEVEL BETWEEN LOWER AND UPPER MAGNOLIA PRODUCED A RETURN OF 44300 LB (DRY WT) ASSAYING 0.02 OZ/TON AU AND 22.5 OZ/TON AG.

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF THE KEYSER TUNNEL, LOWER MAGNOLIA ADIT, UPPER MAGNOLIA ADIT.

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

    WILLIAMS, S A., 1968, COMPLEX SILVER ORES FROM MOREY, NEVADA: THE CANADIAN MINERALOGIST, VOL.9, PT 4,P.478-484.

  • Deposit

    LAWRENCE, 1963, NBMG BULL 61, P.132.

  • Deposit

    KRAL, V.E., 1951, NBMG BULL 50.

  • Deposit

    LENZER, R.C., 1972, GEOLOGY AND ALTERATION OF THE MOREY DISTRICT, NYE COUNTY, NV: UNIV WISCONSIN PH.D. THESIS.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE IS FRACTURE FILLINGS 1 IN TO SEVERAL FT WIDE. HIGH-GRADE ORES OCCUR IN VERTICAL SHOOTS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-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

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