Sylvanite Group

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, 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. Alteration
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046609
MRDS ID M241796
Record type Site
Current site name Sylvanite Group
Alternate or previous names Wahmonie Property

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.16726, 36.81858 (WGS84)
Elevation 1356
Relative position 20 MILES NE OF JUNCTION OF HIGHWAY 29 AND 95; 5 MILES WEST OF KANE SPRING.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Skull Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Beatty(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Death Valley(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Amargosa(hydrologic unit)

Northern Mojave(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

DOE(Federal land areas administered by DOE)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 013S 053E 17 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • PROPERTY OR GROUP CONSISTS OF 4 CLAIMS, UNSURVEYED TOWNSHIP AND RANGE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Primary

Alteration

  • (Local) Hydrothermal Alteration Of Host Rock

Analytical data

Result SOME $32 ORE WAS FOUND AT 65 FT LEVEL OF MINE (1951)

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Volcanic Breccia (Agglomerate)
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Dacite
    Rock unit name Salyer And Wahmonie Formations
    Rock description Salyer And Wahmonie Formations

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.16726, 36.81858

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 1.52M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Quartz Veins

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1925
Discoverer Mcrea And Lefler (Harry Stimler)
Year of first production 1928

Mining district

District name Wahmonie District

Land status

Ownership category Military Reservation

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Du Bois, Clinton M.
    Home office Los Angles, Ca
    First year 1951

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF 500 FT SHAFT PLUS VARIOUS EXPLORATION SHAFTS.

Comments on development

  • SHAFT SUNK IN 1924; EXPLORATION DONE AND LOCATION WORK, IN 1945

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CORNWALL, H.R., 1972, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF SOUTHERN NYE CO.: NBMG BULL 77, P.41

  • Deposit

    KRAL, V.E., 1951, MINERAL RESOURCES OF NYE CO.: NBMG BULL. 50, P. 206-207.

  • Deposit

    NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, MINING DISTRCT OPEN-FLIES. FILE 259, ITEM 2.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1984 Hefner, M.L. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Nevada resources

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