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Pansy Lee Mine

Past Producer in Humboldt county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Antimony, Arsenic
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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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  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. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10044947
MRDS ID M232590
Record type Site
Current site name Pansy Lee Mine
Alternate or previous names West Coast Mine, Case-Prout, Nbmg Sample Sites 2374, 2375
Related records 10149493

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.8693, 41.02322 (WGS84)
Elevation 1555
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position 12 MILES WNW OF WINNEMUCCA (END OF ROAD ON TOP OF SADDLE HILL)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Humboldt(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Winnemucca Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Osgood Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

McDermitt(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Quinn(hydrologic unit)

Black Rock Desert(hydrologic accounting unit)

Black Rock Desert-Humboldt(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 Humboldt

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 036N 036E 01 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • CENTERED ON EXTREME EASTERN EDGE OF SEC 1(KRUM HILLS) ; +/- 1000 M.; PREVIOUS QUAD DESIGNATION = MCDERMITT 1:250000

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Lead Secondary
Copper Secondary
Zinc Critical Secondary
Antimony Critical Secondary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Jamesonite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Stibnite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result ASSAYS RUN 0.2 TO 6 OZ/TON AU
Result 8-40 OZ/TON AG 1942 CONCENTRATE AVERAGED 2 % SB
Result 0.6 OZ AU
Result AND 50 TO 60 OZ AG, AS WELL AS PB, ZN, AND CU. SAMPLE 2374 CONTAINS 10 % FE, 0.01 % TI, 50 PPM MN, 500 PPM AG, +10000 PPM AS, 15 PPM AU, 70 PPM B, +500 PPM CD, 700 PPM CU, 50 PPM LA, 5 PPM NI, +20000 PPM PB, +1000 PPM SB, +1000 PPM ZN, AND 12 PPM AU, BY AA ANALYSIS. SAMPLE 2375 CONTAINS 3 % FE, 0.07 % MG, 0.1 % TI, 70 PPM MN, 200 PPM AG, 150 PPM CU, 7 PPM NI, 15000 PPM PB, 1500 PPM SB, 30 PPM V, 30 PPM Y, 5000 PPM ZN, 30 PPM ZR, AND 3 PPM AU BY AA ANALYSIS.

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 273
USGS model code 36a
Deposit model name Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein
Mark3 model number 27

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
    Rock unit name Raspberry Formation
    Rock description Raspberry Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.8693, 41.02322
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N20E TO N5W
    Dip 65E
    Thickness 0.43M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Ne-Trending Shear Zones; Fissure Vein; Intersections Of The Main Shear Zone With Cross-Fractures.

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.COM: NE-TRENDING SHEAR ZONES CONTAIN DISCONTINUOUS VEINS OF QUARTZ. VEIN AVERAGES 17 INCHES WIDE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1907
Year of first production 1910

Mining district

District name Ten Mile District (Barrett Springs)

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Lessee/Operator
    Owner Great West Gold And Silver Inc.
    First year 1985

Comments on the production information

  • 1939-1940: 1677 TONS ORE YIELD $54,238 1941: 407 TONS ORE YIELDED 157 OZ AU, 13217 OZ AG, 2929 LB CU, AND 30894 LB PR (FROM SMELTER) AND 39598 TONS ORE MILLED ON THE PROBERTY YIELDED 5314 OZ AU, 453508 OZ AG, 71130LB CU, AND 1018842 LB. PB. A FEW THOUSAND TONS ORE WERE MINED AND SHIPPED IN 1954-55; AND ABOUT 100 TONS WERE MINED AND MILLED IN 1971.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 487.68M
    Overall depth 54.86M

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFT, ADITS, ECT.

Comments on development

  • GREAT WEST GOLD AND SILVER WAS SAMPLING THE 585 AND 710 LEVELS OF THE WEST COAST MINE IN 1985 TO INVESTIGATE POSSIBILITY OF REOPENING. MERGER OF GREAT WEST GOLD AND SILVER AND WEST COAST MINES ANNOUNCED IN DEC. 1986. DRILL PROGRAM TO TEST DOWNWARD EXTENSION OF THE VEIN WAS PLANNED. REOPENING WAS ANNOUNCED IN EARLY 1987.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WILLDEN, R, 1964, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF HUMBOLDT COUNTY, NEVADA; NBMG, BULL. 59.

  • Deposit

    VANDERBURG, W.O., 1938, RECONNAISSANCE OF MINING DISTRICTS IN HUMBOLDT COUNTY, NEVADA; USBM INF. CIRC. 6995.

  • Deposit

    TINGLEY, J.V.1972, UNPUBLISHED MEMO, HRI PROJECT NO 1238 , ON FILE AT NBMG.

  • Deposit

    LAWRENCE; E.F., 1963, ANTIMONY DEPOSITS OF NEVADA; NBMG, BULL. 61. GRIMM, K.E., 1942, THE PARAGENESIS OF THE WEST COAST MINES ORE BODY, NEVADA; MA THESIS STANFORD UNIVERSITY #6. QUADE, JACK, 9 JUN 85, NBMG FIELD EXAMINATION AND SAMPLE ANALYSIS. #7. NBMG STAFF, 1985, NBMG OFR-3. #8. PRESS CLIPPINGS, 1984-87, NBMG FILE 146. #9. MINE SEARCH ANNUAL, 1984-85, VOL. VII., P. 489-491, METALS ECONOMICS GROUP, BOULDER, COLORADO.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE MINE IS ON A SMALL KNOB ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE KRUM HILLS HOSTED IN SHALES AND SILTSTONES OF THE RASBERRY FM. MANY OF THE VEINS OCCUPY NE-TRENDING SHEARS WHILE OTHERS ONLY PARTLY FILL THE SHEARS; MOST DIP WEST AT STEEP ANGLES. DUMPS NEAR THE BIG SHAFT ARE EXTENSIVE AND FILLED WITH PYRITE, AND OTHER SULFIDES. SMALL ADITS ALONG NE SHEARS ARE REMNANTS OF EARLIER ACTIVITY IN THE CAMP. SAMPLE 2374 WAS A HIGH-GRADE CHALCOPYRITE, ARSENOPYRITE, SPHALERITE, TETRAHEDRITE, AND POSSIBLY AU/AG MINERALIZATION. SAMPLE 2375 WAS A COMPOSITE SAMPLE OF QUARTZ VEIN MATERIAL FROM THE MAIN DUMPS, AND INCLUDED BRECCIAS WITH VISIBLE TETRAHEDRITE AND GALENA AS WELL AS ARSENOPYRITE AND PYRITE.; MODEL NAME COULD ALSO BE: POLYMETALLIC VEINS.
Deposit CONSISTS OF SUNPATENTED CLAIMS ADJOINING THE NEVADA CONSOLIDATED MINES CO. MOST OF THE $142,628 PRODUCED IN THE DISTRICT IN 1942 PROBABLY CAME FROM THIS MINE. THERE WAS SPORADIC OPERATION OF THE MINE AFTER WWII BUT NO RECORD OF ITS PRODUCTIONS DEVELOPMENT CONSISTS OF SEVERAL ADITS, A 180 FT DEEP SHAFT, AND 1600 FT OF OTHER WORKINGS. IN 1972 THE PROPERTY WAS LEASED TO ALPINE MINERALS, INC., AND SUBLEASED TO JACK WILSON. IN 1907, THE FIRST CLAIMS WERE STAKED ON THE VEINS OF THE PRESENT WORKINGS. IN 1910, SMALL-SCALE PRODUCTION WAS BEGUN LASTING FOR SEVERAL YEARS, BY THE 1910 MINING CO. FROM THEN UNTIL 1938, ONLY SPORADIC LEASING AND PROSPECTING OCCURD, UNTIL THE WEST COAST MINES CO. TOOK IT OVER IN 1937. BIGGEST PRODUCTION- 1941. LARGEST AG-PRODUCTION IN NEVADA AT THAT TIME. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT; 3 FIELD OBSERV

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-81 La Pointe, D.D. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-MAY-87 La Pointe, D.D. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-SEP-94 Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

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