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Grand Central 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. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046718
MRDS ID M241919
Record type Site
Current site name Grand Central Mine
Alternate or previous names Later Part of Ohio Mines Corp.
Related records 10149614

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.37341, 37.34801 (WGS84)
Elevation 1722

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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Esmeralda

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 007S;007S 041E;041E 9 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ABOUT 0.8 MILE SW OF THE TOWN OF HORNSILVER, 0.25 MILE S. OF THE GREAT WESTERN. UTM IS TO ONE CENTRALLY LOCATED SHAFT ON THE CLAIM BLOCK (THERE ARE NUMEROUS WORKINGS). ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillic

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.37341, 37.34801
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Economic information

Geologic structures

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

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 55-60W
    Dip STEEP
    Length 1219.2M
    Width 0.91M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Pedding Plane Faults.

Comments on the geologic information

  • VERY FINE-GRAINED, GREENISH-GREY MAFIC DIKE MATERIAL WAS OBSERVED IN FLOAT.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1895

Mining district

District name Hornsilver (Gold Point, Lime Point) District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFTS, PITS. THE WORKINGS ARE LINED UP IN A N60E TREND.

Comments on development

  • SOME SHIPMENTS REPORTED IN 1908-1909. IN 1880'S-90'S ORE WAS HAULED TO A MILL NEAR LIDA FROM THIS AND OTHER CLAIMS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL 380, P. 41-43.

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    SMITH/BENTZ, 1983, FIELD EXAMINATION, NBMG, 9 MAY 83

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Discovery Year: 1908 (RELOCATED) 1890'S-MINED
Deposit PATENT SURVEY #3967 ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 3 FIELD OBSERV
Deposit QUARTZ VEINS FOLLOW BEDDING PLANE FAULTS, CARRYING OXIDIZED PURITE. VEIN IS HIGHLY FRACTURED AND BRECCIATED.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1982 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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