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Belcher Extension Divide Mining Co. Property

Past Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, 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. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10047193
MRDS ID M242454
Record type Site
Current site name Belcher Extension Divide Mining Co. Property
Alternate or previous names Last Chance Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.28564, 38.003 (WGS84)
Elevation 1731

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Butte(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(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)

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 002N 0425E 28 NW Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • 9 CLAIMS ONE MILE WNW OF THE TONOPAH-DIVIDE MINE, COVERING 170 ACRES, NORTH OF THE REVERT DIVIDE PROPERTY, ADJOINING THE BELCHER DIVIDE MINE ON THE NW ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1982)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cerargyrite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Phyllic,Potassic,Propylitic,Zoned Around Fractures And Fault Zones

Analytical data

Result IN AUGUST 1919, ORE WORTH $37/TON WAS REPORTEDLY CUT.

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.28564, 38.003
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike E-W
    Dip NEAR 90

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1919
Year of last production 1920

Mining district

District name Divide District (Gold Mountain District)

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Belcher Extension Divide Mining Co., A Walz, President
    First year 1923

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 304.8M
    Overall depth 91.44M

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFTS 110 AND 300 FT DEEP (TIMBERED TO 260 FT IN 1919)

Comments on development

  • ACTIVE IN 1923. THE ADJOINING BELCHER DIVIDE CO. HAS USED THIS PROPERTY'S DEEPSHAFT FOR EXPLORATION & DEVELOPMENT PURPOSES. SOME SHIPMENTS WERE MADE TO MILLS IN TONOPAH.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    KNOPF, ADOLPH, 1921, USGS BULL 715-K

  • Deposit

    NBMG REPORT 33, P.124

  • Deposit

    NBMG BULL 92, 1979 P.121-128,PL.I.

  • Deposit

    WEED,W.H., ED., 1920, THE MINES HANDBOOK VOLXIV, P.1127

  • Deposit

    WEED,W.H., ED., 1922, THE MINES HANDBOOK, VOLXV, P.1141

  • Deposit

    UNPUBLISHED CLAIM MAP OF DIVIDE DISTRICT, ON FILE AT NBMG

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1985 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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