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Mellan Gold Mines

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10044515
MRDS ID M231964
Record type Site
Current site name Mellan Gold Mines

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.58783, 37.70856 (WGS84)
Elevation 1719
Relative position AT THE MELLAN TOWNSITE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mellan(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Cactus Flat(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Ralston-Stone Cabin Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

DOD(Federal land areas administered by DOD)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 003S 048E 03 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Analytical data

Result FOUR SAMPLES AVERAGE $17 TO $27 PER TON.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) Alluvium, undifferentiated
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Width 1.83M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Along Shear Zones

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1930
Discoverer Jess And Hazel Mellan Of San Bernardino, Calif.

Mining district

District name Mellan Mountain District

Land status

Ownership category Military Reservation

Comments on the production information

  • ABOUT $1,000 WAS PRODUCED BEFORE WORLD WAR II

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 213.36M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 400 FT 50 DEG INCLINE SHAFT WITH LEVELS AT 40, 80, 160, 300, AND 400 FT; A 100 FT VERT. SHAFT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KRAL, VE, 1951, MINERAL RESOURCES OF NYE CO.: NBMG BULL. 50, P. 131-132

  • Deposit

    CORNWALL, HR, 1972, GEOL. & MIN. DEP. OF S. NYE CO.: NBMG BULL. 77, P. 38-39

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-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.