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Pennsylvania Mine South

Past Producer in Lincoln county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, 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. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Geologic structures
  13. Ore body information
  14. Controls for ore emplacement
  15. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  16. Mining district
  17. Land status
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046481
MRDS ID M241648
Record type Site
Current site name Pennsylvania Mine South
Alternate or previous names Owl Claim?, Part of Tom Johnston Property, Part of Alta Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.47527, 37.41664 (WGS84)
Elevation 1759

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ella Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Clover Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Caliente(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Meadow Valley Wash(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(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 Lincoln

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 006S 067E 16 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Primary
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Propylitization, Silicification

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 150
USGS model code 25c
Deposit model name Epithermal vein, Comstock
Mark3 model number 16

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff > Ash-Flow Tuff
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff > Ash-Flow Tuff
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Rock unit name Prospect Mountain Quartzite;Pioche Shale
    Rock description Prospect Mountain Quartzite;Pioche Shale

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.47527, 37.41664
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Caliente Caldron Complex
Type of structure Local
Structure description Faults, Fractures

Ore body information

  • Strike N-S
    Dip VARIABLE; MAINLY 45E
    Length 9.14M
    Width 9.14M
  • Strike N-S
    Dip VARIABLE; MAINLY 45E

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zone, Fractures

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Pennsylvania District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • ORIGINAL WORKINGS POSSIBLY CAVED OR OBLITERATED BY TRENCHING. EXISTING WORKINGS CONSIST OF SEVERAL CONNECTING SHALLOW PROSPECTS AND TRENCHES. OLD TIMBERS AND PILES OF ORE IN AREA

Comments on development

  • NO ACTIVITY AT TIME OF EXAMINATION IN 1983, BUT AREA IS PROBABLY STAKED.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BENTZ, J. AND SMITH, P., 1983, FIELD EXAMINATION REPORT, SEPT. 13, 1983.

  • Deposit

    TSCHANZ, C.M. AND PAMPEYAN, E.H., 1970, NBMG BULL 73, P. 170-172, PL I, II.

  • Deposit

    NBMG DISTRICT FILES, REPORT ON TOM JOHNSTON PROPERTY

  • Deposit

    GRAPEVINE SPRING G-E-M RESOURCES AREA TECHNICAL REPORT, 1983, FOR BLM

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ELONGATE PROSPECT IN NW PART OF MINE AREA PROVIDES GOOD EXPOSURE OF GEOLOGY. PROPYLITIZED, SILICIFIED ANDESITES. VOLCANICS CUT BY MAFIC DIKES AND A N25W SHEAR ZONE. QUARTZ VEINS PARALLEL THE SHEAR ZONE FORMING A SHEETED VEIN SYSTEM. SHEAR ZONE 10-30 FT WIDE. SLICKENSIDES WITHIN THE ZONE ARE STEEPLY INCLINED AND COATED BY FE OXIDES AND QUARTZ. THE QUARTZ VEINS ARE GENERALLY SUBPARALLEL AND NUMEROUS. MANY ARE EMPLACED ALONG BOTH HIGH AND LOW-ANGLE FRACTURES. MOST OF THE VEINS ARE VUGGY, OPEN-CENTERED FISSURE-TYPE. THE VEINS ARE COMPOSED OF WHITE MASSIVE-COMB AND SUGARY QUARTZ. SOME OF THE VEINS ARE STEEPLY INCLINED AND OTHERS ARE SHALLOW OR ALMOST HORIZONTAL. ON EAST SIDE OF TRENCH THERE IS A 1-2 FT WIDE MASSIVE TO VUGGY QUARTZ VEIN AND QUARTZ-VEINED BRECCIA WHICH DIPS ABOUT 45 TO THE EAST. THIS IS PROBABLY THE HEART OF THE MAIN PENNSYLVANIA VEIN. THE ANDESITES IMMEDIATELY WEST OF THE VEIN ARE IRON-STAINED AND LACED WITH QUARTZ VEINS AND VEINLETS WHICH ARE MOSTLY N-NW-STRIKING AND MORE
Deposit STEEPLY INCLINED THAN IS THE MAIN VEIN. RELATIVELY SMALL AMOUNT OF FE AND MN OXIDES IS ASSOCIATED WITH VEIN MATERIAL, AND IN GENERAL THE QUARTZ CONTAINS ONLY A SMALL AMOUNT OF FINELY CRYSTALLINE PYR

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1984 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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