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Last Chance Mine

Past Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Lead
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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. 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 10047090
MRDS ID M242338
Record type Site
Current site name Last Chance Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.69814, 37.79133 (WGS84)
Relative position ABOUT 4.3 MILES N55W FROM TOWN OF SILVER PEAK.. ONE MILE ENE OF TARANTULA SPRING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Silver Peak(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Esmeralda

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 002S 039E 06 SW Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UTM IS TO APPROXIMATE CENTER OF THE CLAIM ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary
Lead Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Pyrite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Sericitic

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 Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.69814, 37.79133
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENS

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Pegmatitic Quartz-Feldspar Veins In Alaskite

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1867
Discoverer G.W. Evans, A. Petty, Sol Petty, R.F. Frye

Mining district

District name Silver Peak District (1865) ; Mineral Ridge

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SPURR, J.E., 1906, U.S.G.S. PROF. PAPER NO. 55.

  • Deposit

    SHAMBERGER, HUGH, 1976, SILVER PEAK: HISTORIC MINING CAMPS OF NEVADA, SERIES; NO. 8; NEVADA HISTORICAL PRESS: CARSON CITY, NEVADA.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit QUARTZ LENS ASSOCIATED WITH PEGMATITIC QUARTZ-FELDSPAR VEINS IN ALASKITE
Deposit EASTERN MOST MINE ON THE DRINKWATER ZONE OF LENSES ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1981 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

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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