Good Hope Mine

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10047070
MRDS ID M242313
Record type Site
Current site name Good Hope Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.9176, 37.60883 (WGS84)
Elevation 1905
Location accuracy 500(meters)
Relative position 500 M To Probable Mine Area

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Indian Garden Creek(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 004S 037E 07 NW Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • IN SW PART OF SILVER PEAK MOUNTAINS, 7 MI. S OF PIPER PEAK. LOCATION IS FROM MILS ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Secondary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Copper Ore
Galena Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Cambrian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Poleta
    Rock description Poleta

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.9176, 37.60883

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike NW
    Dip 40 NE

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Nw-Trending Belt Of Metasedimentary Rocks Between Granitic Intrusives; Contact Of Slate & Quartzite

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Good Hope (White Wolf) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • CUTS, TUNNELS

Comments on development

  • TOTAL PRODUCTION OF $1795 FROM 69 TONS ORE FOR DISTRICT. MINE WAS ABANDONED IN 1906 SMALL AMOUNT OF ORE WAS TREATED IN A SMALL FURNACE ON FURNACE CREEK, CALIFORNIA

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ALBERS & STEWART, NBMG BULL. 78, P. 69, PL. 2

  • Deposit

    TURNER, IN SPURR, 1906, USGS P. P. 55., P. 85.

  • Deposit

    LINCOLN, F.C., 1923.

  • Deposit

    USBM, 1978, MILS DATA

  • Deposit

    USGS MAP GQ-1186,1974

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit GALENA-BEARING QUARTZ ALONG SLATE-QUARTZITE CONTACT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-82 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.

External references

Authoritative Nevada resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.