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Alpine Mine

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10047204
MRDS ID M242466
Record type Site
Current site name Alpine Mine
Alternate or previous names NBMG Sample Site 2006, Patented Claims Alpine Ladd, Alpine Lass, Alpine Tavern Alpine City,, Rattler, Rattler 2, Rattler 3, Serpentine Wedge, Plomo, North Star,, Perseverance, Evening Star, Hidden Treasure, Morning Star,, Alpine Queen, Alpine King, Rattler 4,, Fraction Lode Surveyed In 1904.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.56092, 38.03327 (WGS84)
Elevation 1768
Relative position APPROXIMATELY 100 M SW OF USMM-1

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gilbert SE(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Southern Big Smoky Valley(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 002N 039E 1114PROJECTED FROM Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ON WEST SIDE OF LONE MOUNTAIN ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

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

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cerargyrite Ore
Enargite Ore
Galena Ore
Malachite Ore
Molybdenite Ore
Wulfenite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Talc Gangue
Tremolite Gangue
Wollastonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silication

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 72
USGS model code 19a
Deposit model name Polymetallic replacement
Mark3 model number 47

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Porphyry > Lamprophyre
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Lone Mountain Pluton
    Rock description Lone Mountain Pluton
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.56092, 38.03327
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Low Angle Faults; Thrust Fault; Nnw-Trending Folds

Ore body information

  • General form STRATIFORM,PODS, LENSES

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Bedding Plane Faults;Contact Of Dikes,Plutons;Brecciated Zone;Intersection Of Ne-Trending Shears And A Lower Magnitude Nw-Trending Fault System.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1903
Year of last production 1908

Mining district

District name Lone Mountain District;Alpine District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL ADITS, STOPES, PITS, DRIFTS

Comments on development

  • INACTIVE AT TIME OF EXAMINATION IN 1983

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SPURR, J.E., 1906, USGS PP 55.

  • Deposit

    ALBERS, J.P. AND STEWART, J.H., 1972, NBMG BULL 78.

  • Deposit

    BONHAM, H.F. JR. AND GARSIDE, L.J., 1979, NBMG BULL 92, P.132-133.

  • Deposit

    TINGLEY, J.V., 1983, FIELD EXAMINATION, 4/29/83.

  • Deposit

    PHARISS, E.I., 1974, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE ALPINE MINING DISTRICT, ESMERALDA COUNTY, NEVADA: MS. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, P. 88-98

  • Deposit

    NBMG OFR 83-8, 83-11, 83-12, 1983.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit WORKINGS OCCUR ALONG A BRECCIATED ZONE BEDDING IN BLEACHED,RECRYSTALIZED DOLOMITE. LAMPROPHYRE DIKES CUT THE SECTION, CAUSING SILICATION NEAR THEIR CONTACT ZONES. THE BEDDING-CONTROLLED MINERALIZATION EXPOSED IN THE UPPER STOPE SHOWS CRUSTS AND FILLINGS OF MNO AND CU OXIDES WHICH ALSO FILL AROUND AND BETWEEN BLOCKS OF DELOMITE. DOLOMITE BLOCKS ARE RECRYSTALLIZED;WOLLASTONITE OCCURS AS RIMS ON THE BLOCK, AND THE OXIDE MINERALS INTERMIX WITH THE AND COAT THE WOLLASTONITE. MINERALS NOTED ARE MN OXIDES, MORPHITE, AURICHALCITE,MALACHITE, CALCITE,WOLLASTONITE, CERAGYRITE?ARGENTITE? CONTACT ZONE ALONG EDGE OF LONE MOUNTAIN PLUTON IS0.5 MILE WIDE.

Reporter information

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

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