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Wheeler Mine

Past Producer in Lyon county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10044908
MRDS ID M232540
Record type Site
Current site name Wheeler Mine
Alternate or previous names NBMG #4211
Related records 10310366

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.11514, 38.67769 (WGS84)
Elevation 2012
Relative position S SIDE PINE GROVE CANYON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lyon(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pine Grove Spring(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Smith Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Walker(hydrologic unit)

Walker(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Lahontan(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 Lyon

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 09N 026E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED TOWNSHIP

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Vein Material Is A Pyrite-Rich Replacement Ore.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.11514, 38.67769
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Nw-Trending Fault. Sheared Graniorite Cut By Dikes Of Granite Porphyry And Capped Bt Tertiary Rhyolite.

Ore body information

  • General form LENSES, STRINGERS
    Strike N60W
    Dip 40N
    Width 60.96M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zone; Ore Along The Shear In The Diorite

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORE BODIES OCCUR AS QUARTZ STRINGERS AND LENSES IN A ZONE OF INTENSE CRUSHING AND ALTERATION, ABOUT 200 FT. WIDE, THAT CUTS THE QUARTZ MONZONITE. CRUSHED & ALTERED ZONE IS JUST SOUTH OF THE MAIN FAULT WHERE THE QUARTZ MONZONITE IS ALTERED TO A DARK-GRAY, ALMOST BLACK ROCK. SULFIDES CONSTITUTE THE ORE AND IS 95% PYRITE WITH SOME CHALCOPYRITE. ORE IS RICHEST IN OXIDIZED ZONE NEAR THE SURFACE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1866
Year of first production 1873

Mining district

District name Wilson District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Tech Resources Of Canada Are Lessors

Comments on the production information

  • 1873-1878; 6038 TONS ORE PRODUCED: GROSS VALUE$165,911.

Comments on the workings information

  • TUNNELS, STOPES, RAISES, CHUTES

Comments on development

  • THE BASAL VITROPHERE OF THE RHYOLITE WAS USED AS A MARKER HORIZON BY THE EARLY MINERS AS THE UPWARD LIMIT TO THE MINERALIZATION.THE INFORMATION WAS PRESENTED BY MR. W.J. CAVANAUGH, PRESENTLY LEASING AND RUNNING A MILLING OPERATION AT THE WILSON MINE. ; ECON.COM: THE MINE HAS BEEN WORKED INTERMITTENTLY SINCE THE DISCOVERY IN 1866. SOME RECENT WORK BY TECH RESOURCES HAS INCLUDED UNDERGROUND ACTIVITIES.(6,038 TONS OF ORE WITH A GROSS VALUE OF 165,9111 BETWEEN 1873 AND 1878.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MOORE,J.G.,1969, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF LYON, DOUGLAS AND ORMSBY COUNTIES, NEVADA; NBMG BULL 75. HILL, 1912, MINING DISTRICTS OF THE WESTERN UNITED STATES, USGS BULL 507.

  • Deposit

    TELLURIDE CLAIMS, WILSON MINING DISTRICT,LYON COUNTY, QUADE SITE VISIT 6/14/89, NBMG UNPUBLISHED MINING DISTRICT FILES (TINGLEY FILES).

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DISCOVERED SHORTLY AFTER THE WILSON MINE, 1866. FROM 1873 TO 1878 IT PRODUCED 6,038 TONS OF ORE WITH A GROSS VALUE OF $165,911. DEVELOPED BY 3 IRREGULAR TUNNELS AND CONNECTING STOPES, RAISES & CHUTES.THE PYRITE WAS SAID TO BE AN INDICATOR OF GOOD GOLD VALUES. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Deposit FAULTZONE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1981 Royse, Sue E. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-JUL-1991 Marcus, S. (Doebrich, J.) U.S. Geological Survey

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