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Blossom Mine

Past Producer in Clark county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046988
MRDS ID M242223
Record type Site
Current site name Blossom Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.92443, 35.49112 (WGS84)
Elevation 1122
Relative position 2 MILES NORTH OF SEARCHLIGHT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Clark(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Searchlight(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Davis Dam(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Kingman(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Piute Wash(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Clark

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 28S 63E 22 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • BETWEEN SEARCHLIGHT M M AND POMPEIT MINES.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Analytical data

Result AU: AG = 1:4

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.92443, 35.49112
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Mine Is At The Contact Of A Sill-Like Protruberence Of The Quartz Monzonite Body

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR-SILL-LIKE (IRREGULAR)
    Thickness 0.91M
    Length 91.44M
    Width 76.2M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Gouge Seam-N13e 36-43e

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE QUARTZ MONZONITE-COUNTRY ROCK CONTACT IS NOT OFFSET BY THE FOOTWALL AND BRECCIA ZONE OF THE SURFACE BODY, WHICH INDICATES THE ORE WAS VERY EASILY BRECCIATED WITH LITTLE RELATIVE MOVEMENT. THE SURFACE BODY APPEARS TO CURVE GENTLY DOWNWARD TOWARD THE CONSPICUOUS GOUGE SEAM OR FAULT, BUT NOT HAVE ACTUALLY REACHED THE FAULT. NATIVE AU WAS ASSOCIATED WITH LIMONITE AND SMALL STREAKS OF SPECULAR HEMATITE, AND WAS GENERALLY WITHIN FRAGMENTED COUNTRY ROCK WITH POROUS SUGARY QUARTZ. THE ORE MINED HERE IS DIFFERENT THAN ANY OTHER ORE AT SEARCHLIGHT, BUT RESEMBLES ORE FOUND IN THE ELDORADO DIST.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Searchlight

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION RECORDED FOR YEARS 1903-1908, 1913-1918, 1924, AND 1934. SMALL PRODUCTION IN 1961 AND 1962.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall length 426.72M

Comments on the workings information

  • MAIN SURFACE BODY WAS MINED OUT BY 1906. THE SPOKANE AND FAULT SHAFTS EXPLORED THE SUBSURFACE WITH 3 LEVELS; AT 75 FT VERTICALLY, 95 FT & 137 FT REPECTIVELY.

Comments on development

  • SOUTHERN NEVADA MINING & MILLING CO. WORKED THE PROPERTY SHORTLY AFTER COMPLETION OF THE SPOKANE SHAFT. THE ORE WAS MILLED AT THE SOUTHERN NEVADA MILL. SMALL PRODUCTION WAS REPORTED 1961-62.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CALLAGHAN, E., 1939, GEOLOGY OF THE SEARCHLIGHT DIST, CLARK CO., NEV., USGS BULL 906-D, P. 176-179

  • Deposit

    RANSOME, F.L., 1907, PRELIMINARY ACCOUNT OF GOLDFIELD, BULLFROG, AND OTHER MINING DIST. IN SOUTHERN NEV., USGS BULL 303, P. 72-74

  • Deposit

    LONGWELL, C.R., ETAL, 1965, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF CLARK, CO., NEV., NEV. BUREAU OF MINES BULL 62, P. 114,201.

  • Deposit

    SMITH, 1982, FIELD EXAMINATION (DEC. 4, 1982)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1983 Lyles, B.F. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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