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Greenwood-Mills Property

Occurrence in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities 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. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046734
MRDS ID M241937
Record type Site
Current site name Greenwood-Mills Property
Alternate or previous names Homestake Nos. 2 and 3, Williamsburg Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.33424, 37.31051 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position EXACT LOCATION UNKNOWN, To Area Of Workings In General Vicinity Of Property +/- 1000 M

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 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ON SLATE RIDGE ABOUT 4 MILES SE OF TOWN OF HORNSILVER 9 MILES NW OF BONNIE CLAIRE RR STA ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation

Analytical data

Result ASSAYS YIELDED TRACE OF AU AND 0.92 TO 5.28 OZ/TON AG, FROM VEIN MATERIAL AND SORTED ORE

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Slate

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.33424, 37.31051
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Hornsilver (Gold Point, Lime Point) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner John Greenwood And George Mills
    First year 1909

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 15.24M
    Overall depth 18.29M

Comments on the workings information

  • 3 SHAFTS: EASTERLY SHAFT ABOUT 10 FT DEEP; CENTRAL INCLINE 50 FT DEEP WITH DRIFT TO THE SOUTH AT THE BOTTOM FOR 20 FT, WITH CROSSCUTS FOR 10 FT, MORE CROSSCUT & WINZE; WESTERLY INCLINE

Comments on development

  • 1909 REPORT DESCRIBED THIS AS AN UNDESIRABLE PROSPECT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BLACKBURN, W.H., 1909, UNPUBLISHED REPORT ON THE HOMESTAKE NOS. 2 & 3, AND WILLIAMSBURG CLAIMS; NBMG FILE 92, ITEM 2

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SMALL SEAM

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-82 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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