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Ace In the Hole Mine

Past Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodity 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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046791
MRDS ID M241999
Record type Site
Current site name Ace In the Hole Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.8301, 37.53938 (WGS84)
Elevation 1954
Relative position 2.3 MILES BY ROAD NORTH OF THE OASIS-SILVER PEAK ROAD

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Oasis Divide(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Goldfield(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 005S;004S 037E;037E 02;35 NE (02); SE (35) Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • IN SOUTHERN PART OF THE SILVER PEAK RANGE, ON WEST SIDE OF A N-S VALLEY ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Clay Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • BEST ORE IS GREENISH GRAY CHLORITE WITH MODERATE AMOUNTS OF SERICITE AND QUARTZ

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chlorite Ore
Quartz Gangue
Sericite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Chloritization Of Igneous Rock

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form ROUGHLY TABULAR TO IRREGULAR
    Strike SSE
    Dip STEEPLY EAST
    Thickness 12.19M
    Length 91.44M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Palmetto

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Monte Little And Ted Shaw (Early 1960'S)

Comments on the workings information

  • OPEN PIT 75 FT LONG BY UP TO 50 FT WIDE, 15 FT DEEP.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PAPKE, K.G., 1975, NBMG BULL 84, P. 13-14

  • Production

    PAPKE, K.G., 1975, P. 13.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CHLORITE-RICH ZONE PARALLELS THE VALLEY AND IS UP TO 40 FT WIDE, BUT VARIES.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-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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