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Jim Butler Tonopah Mining Co.

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10044364
MRDS ID M231768
Record type Site
Current site name Jim Butler Tonopah Mining Co.
Alternate or previous names Fraction No. 1 Shaft, Fraction No. 2 Shaft, Gold Hill Shaft, Stone Cabin Shaft, Wandering Boy Shaft, Big Tono Shaft, Good Enough Shaft

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.22981, 38.06605 (WGS84)
Elevation 1859
Relative position IN THE CENTER OF TONOPAH CITY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tonopah(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 003N;002N 042E;042E 35,36;01,02 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • PROPERTY CONSIST OF 16 CLAIMS. UTM LOCATION IS OF THE WANDERING BOY SHAFT.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Argentite Ore
Cerargyrite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Kaolinization, Sericitization

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 150
USGS model code 25c
Deposit model name Epithermal vein, Comstock
Mark3 model number 16

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
    Chronological age 20.4
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Rock unit name Mizpah Trachyte;West End Rhyolite
    Rock description Mizpah Trachyte;West End Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
    Chronological age 20.4

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.22981, 38.06605
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Wandering Boy Fault Striking Nw, Dipping 50 Sw, Gold Hill Fault Nw Striking Fault Cuts Veins

Ore body information

  • Strike E-W (FRACTION NO.1 VEIN)
    Dip S (FRACTION NO.1 VEIN)

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault Control

Comments on the geologic information

  • IN FRACTION NO. 2 SHAFT IS A 3-FT VEIN STRIKING NE, DIPPING 40SE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Tonopah District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF THE WANDERING BOY SHAFT, THE 300 FT BIG TONO SHAFT, THE 490 FT GOLD HILL SHAFT 238-FT FRACTION NO. 1 SHAFT, 400-FT FRACTION NO. 2 SHAFT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SPURR, J.E., 1905, GEOLOGY OF THE TONOPAH MINING DISTRICT: USGS PROF. PAPER 42, P. 149-164

  • Deposit

    CARPENTER, JA, ET AL, 1953, HISTORY OF FIFTY YEARS OF MINING AT TONOPAH: NBMG BULL. 51

  • Deposit

    NOLAN, TB, 1935, UNDERGROUND GEOL. OF TONOPAH MINING DIST.: NBMG BULL 23

  • Production

    CARPENTER, ET AL, 1953, P. 149

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE COMPANY WAS ORGANIZED IN 1903. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Deposit ORE MINERALS OCCUR IN LENSES OR FILMS ON CRACKS OR CREVICES.

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

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