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Silver Mountain Workings North

Occurrence in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Gold, Lead, Copper, Zinc
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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. 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 10047200
MRDS ID M242461
Record type Site
Current site name Silver Mountain Workings North
Alternate or previous names NBMG Sample Site 1956
Related records 10149677

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.45174, 37.21856 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

West of Gold Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

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

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Death Valley-Lower Amargosa(hydrologic unit)

Northern Mojave(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(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 31 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ACCESSIBLE BY POOR ROAD FOR THE LAST 2 MILES EAST OF MAIN SILVER MOUNTAIN WORKINGS ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Primary
Lead Secondary
Copper Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Strong Hydrothermal Alteration Of Most Rock And Veins

Analytical data

Result SELECTED SAMPLE 1956 WAS HIGH IN AG,PB,SR WITH LESSER CU,ZN AND 3.5 PPM AU

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.45174, 37.21856
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N-S
    Dip STEEP
    Width 1.52M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Tokop District; Gold Mountain District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • OLD SHAFT IN POOR CONDITION-TRIPOD METAL HEADFRAME

Comments on development

  • RECENTLY STAKED (1984)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    QUADE, JACK, 1984, FIELD EXAMINATION, 4-18-84

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit HYDROTHERMAULY ALTERED QUARTZ VEINS IN ALTERED QUARTZ MON ZONITE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1985 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.

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