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Silicon Mine

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodity Silica
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10044502
MRDS ID M231948
Record type Site
Current site name Silicon Mine
Alternate or previous names Silica Mine, Monarch Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.647, 36.9594 (WGS84)
Elevation 1359
Relative position 6.3 MILES NE OF BEATTY MTN.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Beatty Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Beatty(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Death Valley(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Amargosa(hydrologic unit)

Northern Mojave(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(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 011S 048E 19 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silica Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Thoroughly Silicified Rhyolitic Tuff.

Analytical data

Result THE SILICA RUNS 99.7% SIO2.

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) Younger tuffaceous sedimentary rocks
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Fluorine District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner J. Irving Crowell Of Beatty
    First year 1929
  • Type Owner
    Owner Hinds, Louis
    Home office Beatty
    First year 1951

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall width 45.72M

Comments on the workings information

  • MINED BY AN OPEN CUT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KRAL, V.E., 1951, MINERAL RESOURCES OF NYE CO.: NBMG BULL. 50, P. 68

  • Deposit

    CORNWALL, H.R. AND KLEINHAMPL, FJ, 1961, GEOL. OF THE BARE MOUNTAIN QUAD; USGS MAP GQ-157.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1981 Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

External references

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Authoritative Nevada resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.