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Oriental Mine

Past Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10047133
MRDS ID M242384
Record type Site
Current site name Oriental Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.26952, 37.27078 (WGS84)
Elevation 1920
Relative position ABOUT 2.2 AIRMILES S 10 W FROM TOKOP

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gold Point(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Last Chance Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Cactus-Sarcobatus Flats(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 008S 042E 04 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock
    Rock unit name Wyman Formation
    Rock description Wyman

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.26952, 37.27078
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike E-W
    Dip NORTH

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1871
Discoverer Thomas Shaw

Mining district

District name Tokop (Oriental Wash, Gold Mountain, Bonnie Claire) District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • AMOUNT OF PRODUCTION UNKNOWN

Comments on the workings information

  • SMALL INCLINED SHAFTS

Comments on development

  • DISTRICT DISCOVERED BY SHAW IN 1866. ORE FROM THE ORIENTAL MINE WAS WORKED IN AN ARRASTRA. THE ORIENTAL YIELDED SOME OF THE RICHEST GOLD FOUND IN NEVADA IN THE 1800'S, AND SPECIMENS WERE DISPLAYED AT THE CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION IN PHILADELPHIA IN 1876. IT WAS ABANDONED AFTER A FEW YEARS, THEN REVIVED, AND A POST OFFICE SERVED THE TOWN FROM 1887 TO 1900.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LINCOLN, F.C., 1923, MINING DISTRICTS AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF NEVADA: NEVADA NEWSLETTER PUBLISHING CO., RENO, NEVADA.

  • Deposit

    PAHER, STANLEY, 1970, NEVADA GHOST TOWNS AND MINING CAMPS: HOWELL-NORTH BOOKS, SAN DIEGO, CALIF.

  • Deposit

    VANDERBURG, W. O., 1936, NBMG BULL 27, P. 83.

  • Deposit

    RANSOME, F.L., 1907, USGS BULL 303, P. 83.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-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.

External references

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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