Dispozitch Mine

Past Producer in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Lead, Copper, Gold
Sections on this page
  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. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10045310
MRDS ID M233011
Record type Site
Current site name Dispozitch Mine
Alternate or previous names Disposish

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.19816, 38.26576 (WGS84)
Elevation 1646

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Camp Douglas(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Excelsior Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Fish Lake-Soda Spring Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(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 Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 005N 034E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Copper Primary
Gold Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Chrysocolla Ore
Linarite Ore
Malachite Ore
Limonite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Wad Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Sericitization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Excelsion
    Rock description Excelsion

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.19816, 38.26576

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Ne-Striking Faults
Type of structure Local
Structure description Strong Folding With Local Overturning, Shear Zone

Ore body information

  • General form LINEAR, DISSEMINATED
    Dip 30 N

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Silver Star District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ROSS, D.C., 1961, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 58

  • Production

    ROSS, D.C., 1961, TABLE 6.7

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit A 4-FT-THICK SHEAR ZONE BETWEEN GRANITEIC ROCKS AND QUARTZITE(?). ORE MINERALS OCCUR IN QUARTZ STRINGERS IN THE SHEAR ZONE AND DISSEMINATED IN THE SERISITIZED WALL ROCK.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1981 Tingley, J.V. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-NOV-1990 Skurski, M. (Marcus, Sue) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references

Authoritative Nevada resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.