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Vicksburg Mine

Occurrence in Humboldt county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Tungsten
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10045003
MRDS ID M232655
Record type Site
Current site name Vicksburg Mine
Alternate or previous names Vicksburg Consolidated Mines, Now Consolidated With Ashdown Mine To the South

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.69851, 41.83376 (WGS84)
Elevation 1494
Relative position 12 MILES SOUTH OF DENIO

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Humboldt(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Vicksburg Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Denio(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Vya(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Thousand-Virgin(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 045N 029E 12,13 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • 2 MILES S. OF DEFENSE MINE, ADJOINING ASHDOWN MINE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Secondary
Tungsten Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • NONE KNOWN, BUT ORE TONNAGE FROM THE VICKSBURG IS ESTIMATED AT 500,000 TONS WITH A COMBINED CU-AU-AG VALUE OF $12/TON (1967).

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Scheelite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result SAMPLE 2974 CONTAINS 0.7 % FE, 0.2 % MG, 1 % CA, 0.1 % TI, 100 PPM MN, 0.5 PPM AG, 500 PPM BA, 30 PPM BE, 10 PPM BI, 10 PPM CR, 30 PPM CU, 1000 PPM MO, 50 PPM PB, 5 PPM SC, 200 PPM SR, 30 PPM V, 15 PPM Y, AND 50 PPM ZR.

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 > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Pine Forest Range Intrusive
    Rock description Pine Forest Range Intrusive
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.69851, 41.83376
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 3.66M

Comments on the geologic information

  • VICKSBURG VEIN LIES 1100 FT. N OF OUTCROPS OF THE ASHDOWN VEIN; 3 PARALLEL VEINS, THE LARGEST AND MOST PRODUCTIVE OF WHICH IS THE 12-FT WIDE NO 1 VEIN. THE NO. 2 AND NO. 3 VEINS ARE EACH ABOUT 4 FT. WIDE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Warm Springs District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Vicksburg Consolidated; American Copper And Nickel Bought It From The Cannon Family.

Comments on the workings information

  • MOST OF THE OLDER WORKINGS ARE EITHER FLOODED OR INACCESSIBLE AND MANY HAVE BEEN BULLDOZED OVER BY ROAD AND DRILL SITE CONSTRUCTION.

Comments on development

  • DISCOVERED IN 1863 AND MINED INTERMITTENTLY EVER SINCE. MAIN AREA OF CAMP IS A LABYRINTH OF ROADS AND DRILL SITES BY AMERICAN COPPER AND NICKEL ALL WITHIN THE LAST FEW YEARS, ALTHOUGH ACTIVITY WAS TEMPORARILY HALTED AT TIME OF EXAMINATION IN 1984. 14 CLAIMS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HUTTON, A., 1967?, UNPUBLISHED REPORT ON THE VICKSBURG CONSOLIDATED MINE; ON FILE AT NBMG

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit TRIASSIC SEDIMENTS HAVE BEEN INTRUDED BY LARGE MASSES OF BULL QUARTZ FROM GRANITIC SOURCES WHICH ALSO OUTCROP WITHIN THE AREA OF THE VICKSBURG SITE. SAMPLE 2947 IS FROM AN APLITE DIKE AND BRECCIATED VEIN NORTH OF THE VICKSBURG SITE.; MODEL NAME COULD ALSO BE: POLYMETALLIC VEINS.
Deposit VICKSBURG GROUP OF 14 MINING CLAIMS ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT; 3 FIELD OBSERV

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1981 La Pointe, D.D. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-MAY-1987 La Pointe, D.D. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-SEP-1994 Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

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