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Green Tree Mine

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10045212
MRDS ID M232900
Record type Site
Current site name Green Tree Mine
Alternate or previous names Cold Day Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.0801, 39.59491 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lander(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Yankee Blade(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Edwards Creek Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Millett(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Reese(hydrologic unit)

Humboldt(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 Lander

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 020N 045E 17 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • CHOSE A POINT IN NW 1/4; PREVIOUS QUAD DESIGNATION = AUSTIN (1956) 1:625000

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gemstone Primary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Ankerite Gangue
Calcite Gangue
Graphite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Pyrolusite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Rhodochrosite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.0801, 39.59491
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Fractures, Postmineral Faults.

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault And Joint Fractures

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Reese River District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • BETWEEN $5,000 TO $100,000 WAS PRODUCED.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    STEWART, J.H., MCKEE, E.H., AND STAGER, H.K., 1977. GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL.889

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit RETICULATE VEIN PATTERN WITH IRREGULAR ORE SHOOTS GENERALLY LESS THAN 100 FT LONG

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1981 Flynn, Patricia Dodd Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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