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Silver Pick Mine

Occurrence in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodity 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. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046692
MRDS ID M241891
Record type Site
Current site name Silver Pick Mine
Alternate or previous names Deserted, North End Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.23397, 37.72328 (WGS84)
Elevation 1707

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Ralston-Stone Cabin 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 Esmeralda

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 002S 042E 35 CENTER Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • 5 PATENTED CLAIMS 60 ACRES ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1982

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Alunite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Alunitization, Silicification, Pyritization

Analytical data

Result FAULT BRECCIA CARRIED $1 - $5/TON IN GOLD (1948 PRICES)

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Dacite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Miocene
    Chronological age 21.25
    Dating method K-Ar
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Latite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Miocene
    Chronological age 21.25
    Dating method K-Ar
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Dacite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Miocene
    Chronological age 21.25
    Dating method K-Ar
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Latite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Miocene
    Chronological age 21.25
    Dating method K-Ar

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.23397, 37.72328
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Post-Mineral Faulting And Brecciation

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault (Columbia Mountain Fault)

Comments on the geologic information

  • A LARGE BODY OF LOW-GRADE SULFIDE ORE WAS EXPOSED ON THE DESERTED SHAFT (1922)

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1911

Mining district

District name Goldfield District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Silver Pick Consolidated Mines Co.
    First year 1922

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 457.2M

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFT WITH LEVELS AT 271 FT, 500 FT. SHAFT 1500 FT DEEP BY 1922. ALSO A 280 FT. SHAFT.

Comments on development

  • NEWMONT MINING CORP. DID GEOPHYSICAL STUDIES IN 1940'S TO DETERMINE EXISTENCE OF VEIN EXTENSIONS UNDER THE SIEBERT LAKE BEDS TO THE WEST OF THE MAIN MINING DISTRICT. THE SILVER PICK SHAFT WAS THEN REOPENED AND STUDIED AND THE FAULT-VEIN WAS DEVELOPED TO THE SOUTH FOR SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SEARLS, F., 1948, NBMG BULL. 48, P. 18-20

  • Deposit

    WEED, W.H., ED., 1922, THE MINES HANDBOOK, VOL. XV, P. 1334.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1982 La Pointe, D.D. (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.

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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