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Lone Springs Mine

Past Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Clay, Talc-Soapstone
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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 10046856
MRDS ID M242074
Record type Site
Current site name Lone Springs Mine
Alternate or previous names Lone Springs Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.69286, 37.40384 (WGS84)
Elevation 2188
Relative position 2.7 MILES SOUTH OF NEVADA HIGHWAY 3 ON THE SYLVANIA CANYON 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 19 CENTER Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Clay Primary
Talc-Soapstone Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • FINER MATERIAL IS WHITE TO LIGHT GREENISH GRAY, FLAKY AND POROUS. MORE MASSIVE ORE IS GREENISH GRAY VERY FINE-GRAINED.

Materials information

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

Analytical data

Result TALC OCCURRED IN TRACE AMOUNTS IN 3 SAMPLES AND MADE UP ABOUT 25% OF THE OTHER 2 SAMPLES OF ORE

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Wyman Formation
    Rock description Wyman
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.69286, 37.40384
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Faults Trending Roughly E-W

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Length 137.16M
    Width 18.29M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Faults(?)

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1936

Mining district

District name Sylvania (Green Mountain) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • UPPER AND LOWER OPEN PITS

Comments on development

  • OWNED BY LOUISE OLIVER AFTER 1947. LEASED TO H.N. STEWART FROM 1952 TO 1958. CONTROLLED BY ARCHIE BRADY (FOR A FEW YEARS AFTER 1958) WHO DID EXTENSIVE STRIPPING AND MINING IN THE UPPER PIT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PAPKE, K.G., 1975, NBMG BULL 84, P. 48-49

  • Production

    PAPKE, K.G., 1975, P. 48.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CONTACT IS A FAULT (IN SOME PLACES) BETWEEN ORE BODY AND HORNFELS. MOST ORE IS BRECCIATED WITH FRAGMENTS USUALLY LESS THAN 3 INCHES IN DIAMETER.

Reporter information

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

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