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White Aster Mine

Past Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Talc-Soapstone, Clay
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046763
MRDS ID M241969
Record type Site
Current site name White Aster Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.68453, 37.40828 (WGS84)
Elevation 2097
Location accuracy 250(meters)
Relative position ABOUT 1.9 MILES BY ROAD SOUTH OF NEVADA HIGHWAY 3 ON IMPASSABLE ROAD

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sylvania Mountains(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

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

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Fish Lake-Soda Spring 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 006S 039E 20 W2 OF NW OF NW Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Talc-Soapstone Primary
Clay Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • MOST ORE IS LIGHT GREENISH GRAY, VERY FINE-GRAINED, BUT IS SOMETIMES BROKEN WITH SMALL ROUNDED FRAGMENTS

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chlorite Ore
Talc Ore
Calcite Gangue
Dolomite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result ORE IS PREDOMINANTLY TALC WITH MINOR CHLORITE

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 Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Reed Dolomite
    Rock description Reed Dolomite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.68453, 37.40828
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Faults, Shear Zones

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Width 1.83M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Contact Of Diorite Dikes With Dolomite; Shear Zones

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1941
Discoverer W.E. Macboyle, M.D., Macboyle And J.E. King

Mining district

District name Sylvania (Green Mountain) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • PROSPECT PITS, ADITS, OPEN CUTS, STOPES

Comments on development

  • MACBOYLES DID DEVELOPMENT AND MINING FOR A FEW YEARS IN EARLY 1940'S. THE MINE WAS ACTIVE AGAIN ABOUT 1957

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PAPKE, K.G., 1975, NBMG BULL 84, P. 49-50

  • Production

    PAPKE, K.G., 1975, P. 49

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit TALC OREBODIES ARE SOMETIMES SEPARATED FROM DOLOMITE BY DIKES AND/OR SHEAR ZONES. CONTACTS BETWEEN TALC VEINS AND DOLOMITE ARE SHARP BUT IRREGULAR

Reporter information

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

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