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Black Boy Mine

Prospect in Pershing county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Lead, Antimony, 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. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10047546
MRDS ID M242909
Record type Site
Current site name Black Boy Mine
Alternate or previous names NBMG Sample Site 3283

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.60571, 40.39933 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pershing(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Natchez Spring(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Granite Springs Valley(hydrologic unit)

Truckee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Lahontan(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 Pershing

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 029N 030E 10 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Secondary
Antimony Critical Secondary
Zinc Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sphalerite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation

Analytical data

Result SAMPLE 3283

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 150
USGS model code 25c
Deposit model name Epithermal vein, Comstock
Mark3 model number 16

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.60571, 40.39933
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Width 4.57M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zones

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Trinity District

Comments on the workings information

  • 3 ADITS, CUTS

Comments on development

  • PROPERTY APPEARS TO HAVE PRODUCED SOME ORE, PROBABLY IN THE 1930'S. CURRENTLY PART OF ACTIVE U.S. BORAX PROJECT, (AT TIME OF EXAMINATION IN 1987)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, M.G., 1977, NBMG BULL 89, PL. 1.

  • Deposit

    TINGLEY, J.V., 1987, UNPUBLISHED DATA ON THE KUMIVA PEAK 1:100000 SCALE MAP AREA

  • Deposit

    TINGLEY, J.V. AND BONHAM, H.F.,JR., 1987, FIELD EXAMINATION REPORT.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit BRECCIATED WHITE QUARTZ VEINS ALONG IRON-OXIDE STAINED SHEAR ZONES CUTTING METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS. ZONES ARE 10-15 FT WIDE, STAINED CINNAMON BROWN AND MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH RHYOLITE DIKES. AT LEAST TWO VEINS ARE EXPOSED IN THE OLD MINE WORKINGS. THEY ARE PARALLEL AND STRIKE ABOUT N 35 E. THESE VEINS EXTEND SW INTO THE AREA OF BRECCIATED RHYOLITE TUFF WHICH HOSTS THE TRINITY DISSEMINATED SILVER OCCURRENCE. VEIN ORE ON THE MINE DUMPS CONTAINS YELLOW IRON, LEAD, ANTIMONY OXIDES AS WELL AS CERUSSITE AND POSSIBLY CLOTS OF SPHALERITE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1988 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-SEP-1994 Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

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