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Silverton Mine

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Selenium
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Alteration
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  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. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10044326
MRDS ID M231724
Record type Site
Current site name Silverton Mine
Alternate or previous names West Pan Group, Pan Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.87366, 38.52077 (WGS84)
Elevation 1780
Relative position ONE MILE NORTH OF THE WALL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lockes(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Duckwater(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lund(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

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

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED TOWNSHIP AND RANGE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Selenium Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Argentite Ore
Cerargyrite Ore
Selenite Ore
Silver Ore
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) The Carbonates At The Faults Are Argillized, And Silicified.

Analytical data

Result 1980- A SAMPLE FROM THE DUMP OF THE SHAFT CONTAIN 2 % CA, 500 PPM AS, 1500 PPM MN, 200 PPM CU, 70 PPM AG, 150 PPM W, 500 PPM ZN, 5 PPM BE.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Devonian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.87366, 38.52077
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Cross Faults: N65e, 70se; N65w, 90; N85e, 47se.

Ore body information

  • General form STRINGERS

Controls for ore emplacement

  • The Mineralization Is Adjacent To A Major North-Trending, Vertical To East Dipping Fault (Silverton Fault) And Cross Faults.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1921
Discoverer J.C. Tognoni

Mining district

District name Pancake Range

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Nichol Industrial Mineral Corp.
    First year 1963

Comments on the production information

  • SMALL AMOUNTS OF SILVER ORE WERE SHIPPED IN 1930-1937 CONTAINING 10-30 OZ SILVER PER TON. LAST SHIPMENT WAS IN 1953.

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF THE 100 FT SILVERTON SHAFT, FIVE ADITS.

Comments on development

  • 30-40 CLAIMS. A COMPANY WAS ORGANIZED IN THE 1920'S AND A SMALL AMOUNT OF ORE WAS SHIPPED BETWEEN 1930 AND 1937

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

    KRAL, V.E., 1951, NBMG BULL. 50 P. 49.

  • Deposit

    HAZARDOUS SURFACE OPENINGS TO ABANDONED UNDERGROUND MINES-NEVADA; USDI-BM, PREPARED BY INTERNATIONAL MINING CONSULTANTS, INC., CONTRACT # J0295039

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE SELENITE VEINS ARE ONE INCH THICK.ANASTOMOSING VEINLETS OF WHITE DRUSY QUARTZ.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1981 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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Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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