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Great Western Mine

Past Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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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. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046717
MRDS ID M241918
Record type Site
Current site name Great Western Mine
Alternate or previous names Silvermines Property, Southwestern Mines Co. Property

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.36758, 37.34856 (WGS84)
Elevation 1676

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gold Point(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Last Chance Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Cactus-Sarcobatus Flats(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 007S 041E 06,07,PROJECTED,FROM,WEST Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ABOUT 0.5 MILE SW OF THE TOWN OF HORNSILVER (GOLD POINT) 17 CLAIMS (11 CLAIMS OF WHICH COVER 135 ACRES) . UTM IS TO ONE OF MANY WORKINGS ON THE PROPERTY. UTM IS TO MINE SYMBOL ON TOPO MAP ON LARGE CLAIM BLOCK. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Limonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Wyman Formation
    Rock description Wyman

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.36758, 37.34856
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Post-Ore Fault Movement Crushed Ore

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 55-60 W
    Dip STEEP TO 50 NE
    Length 1219.2M
    Width 6.1M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault Zone; Paralleling Diorite Dikes

Comments on the geologic information

  • GOUGE ZONE SEPARATES ORE FROM COUNTRY ROCK

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1905

Mining district

District name Hornsilver (Lime Point, Gold Point) District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Stoneham, C. A.
    Home office N. Y.
    First year 1922

Comments on the production information

  • ORE WAS BEING SHIPPED IN 1908; 12 TONS A DAY WAS BEING SHIPPED IN 1909

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 914.4M
    Overall depth 274.32M

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFT TO 300 FT; 600 FT. OF DEVELOPMENT ON 100-FT LEVEL; 175 FT. OF DEVELOPMENT ON THE 200 FT LEVEL IN 1909; STOPES; TRENCHES TO EXPOSE EXTENT OF VEIN. 900-FT SHAFT IN 1923, WITH 3, WITH 3000 FT OF LATERAL WORKINGS

Comments on development

  • CHAMP D'OR MINING CO. OPENED IT IN 1912, AND OPERATED UNDER LEASE AND BOND BY THE ORLEANS HORNSILVER MINING CO. 150-TON CYANIDE PLANT IN OPERATION IN 1923. IN 1922, SOUTHWESTERN MINES COMPANY OWNED THE CLAIMS WITH 85% CONTROL BY SILVER MINES CORP. ONLY MINE IN DISTRICT SHIPPING ORE IN 1908

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL 380, P. 41-43.

  • Deposit

    WEED, W.H., ED., 1922, THE MINES HANDBOOK, VOL. XV., P. 1333, 1342.

  • Deposit

    RANSOME, F.L., SEPT., 1909, MIN. & SCI PRESS, P 433; NBMG FILE 92, ITEM

  • Deposit

    USBM, 1978, MILS DATA

  • Deposit

    TURNER, J. K., 1922, THE HORNSILVER MINING DISTRICT: MINING AND SCIENTIFIC PRESS, VOL. 124, NO. 3, P. 93-94.

  • Deposit

    NBMG BULL 78, P. 69.

  • Deposit

    LINCOLN, F. C., 1923, MINING DISTRICTS AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF NEVADA: RENO, NEVADA NEWSLETTER PUBLISHING CO., P. 73-75.

  • Production

    USGS BULL 380, P. 41-42. LINCOLN, P 74.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LARGEST VEIN VARIED FROM 5 TO 20 FT. WIDE, TRAVERSING THE PROPERTY FOR 4000 FT.

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

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