New Alto Divide Mining Company Property.

Occurrence in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Gold
Sections on this page
  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. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  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 10046808
MRDS ID M242020
Record type Site
Current site name New Alto Divide Mining Company Property.
Alternate or previous names Alto Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.23313, 37.9955 (WGS84)
Elevation 1859
Relative position ABOUT 5.0 AIRMILES DUE SOUTH OF CENTER OF TONOPAH.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mud Lake NW(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Ralston-Stone Cabin 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 002N 042E 26 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • 4 CLAIMS EAST OF THE TONOPAH DIVIDE MINE; 70+ ACRES . UTM IS TO NEAR CENTER OF CLAIM BLOCK. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cerargyrite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Potassic, Phyllic And Propylitic, Zoned Around Fractures And Faults

Analytical data

Result VEIN MATERIAL AVERAGED $8.60/TON, MAINLY IN SILVER (1922)

Nearby scientific data

(1) Mafic phaneritic intrusive rocks

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 3.05M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Divide (Gold Mountain) District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner New Alto Divide Mining Co.; J. Mayer, President-Manager
    First year 1923

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 624.84M
    Overall depth 121.92M

Comments on the workings information

  • 400-FT SHAFT, BEGUN IN 1919, WITH ALL LATERAL WORK ON 400-FT LEVEL. A 190-FT CROSSCUT TO EAST EXPOSED VEIN

Comments on development

  • ACTIVE IN 1923, FORMED IN 1921 TO TAKE OVER HOLDINGS OF ALTO DIVIDE MINING CO. (UNDER SAME MANAGEMENT AS EAST DIVIDE MINING CO.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LINCOLN, F.C., 1923,

  • Deposit

    NBMG REPORT 33, P. 124.

  • Deposit

    NBMG BULL 92, P. 121-128

  • Deposit

    WEED, W.H., ED., 1920, THE MINES HANDBOOK, VOL. XIV, P. 1125.

  • Deposit

    WEED, W.H., ED., 1922, THE MINES HANDBOOK VOL. XV, P. 1290.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEIN

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-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.

Authoritative Nevada resources

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