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Hunter

Past Producer in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodities Lead, 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Production statistics
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10072157
MRDS ID W016466
Record type Site
Current site name Hunter
Alternate or previous names Vulcan
Related records 10126439

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.00086, 39.6166 (WGS84)
Relative position 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF STEPTOE POST OFFICE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Combs Creek(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Newark Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ely(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Long-Ruby 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 White Pine

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
21N 62E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • LATITUDE-LONGITUDE LOCATION IS THE APPROXIMATE CENTER OF THE DISTRICT. PART OF THE DISTRICT APPEARS ON THE JARALOSA MOUNTAIN 7.5 MINUTE TOPOGRAPHIC QUADRANGLE. ADDITIONAL DRAINAGE AREA CODE IS 13020211. THIS DISTRICT EXTENDS FROM NEAR THE SIERRA COUNTY LINE SOUTHWARD FOR ABOUT 16 MILES TO AN AREA SOUTH OF CUCHILLO NEGRO CREEK. IT IS ABOUT 4 OR 5 MILES WIDE AND ENCOMPASSES IRON MOUNTAIN, REILLY PEAK, CUCHILLO MOUNTAIN, CROSS MOUNTAIN AND TWIN PEAKS. ELEVATIONS RANGE FROM 8200 FT AT REILLY PEAK TO 5600 FT IN CUCHILLO CREEK.; PREVIOUS QUAD DESIGNATION = LAS CRUCES 1:250000

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Gold Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Anglesite Ore
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Lead Ore
Malachite Ore
Limonite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Pluton Of Quartz Monzonite And Monzonite

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault Breccia

Comments on the geologic information

  • PRECAMBRIAN AMPHIBOLITE AND METARHYOLITE ARE EXPOSED IN THE STRUCTURALLY HIGHEST BLOCKS ALONG THE WESTERN FAULT ZONE. PALEOZOIC ROCKS ARE MOSTLY MARINE SEDIMENTS CONSISTING OF DOLOMITES, LIMESTONES, SHALES, SANDSTONES AND SILTSTONES; AND THEY INCLUDE CAMB. BLISS FM, ORD. EL PASO GROUP, ORD. MONTOYA GROUP, SIL. FUSSELMAN FM, DEV. ONATE FM, DEV. PERCHA SHALE, MISS. LAKE VALLEY FM, MISS. KELLY LIMESTONE, PENN. MAGDALENA GROUP, AND PERM. MANZANO GROUP. SOME EROSIONAL REMNANTS OF CRET. MARINE CONGLOMERATES, SHALES, LIMESTONES AND SANDSTONES OVERLIE PERM. ROCKS ALONG THE EASTERN SIDE OF THE RANGE. CENOZOIC ROCKS INCLUDE SILLS, DIKES AND PLUGS OF MONZONITE, APLITE AND GRANITE INTRUDED INTO THE PALEOZOIC ROCKS; AND ALONG THE FLANKS OF THE RANGE ARE FLOWS, TUFFS AND BRECCIAS OF ANDESITE, RHYOLITE, LATITE AND BASALT. SANTA FE FM FORMS THE VALLEY-FILL. TECTONIC SETTING IS CONTINENTAL PLATFORM DISRUPTED BY EXTENSIVE CENOZOIC VULCANISM AND BASIN AND RANGE DEFORMATION.
  • MAIN ORE SHOOT IS 75 FEET LONG, UP TO 30 FEET WIDE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Hunter

Land status

Ownership category Private

Production statistics

  • Year 1908
    Period 1905-1908
    Material ORE
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Cp_Grade: ^30 Oz Ag/Tn 22% Pb 6.4% Cu
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Trace Ore Copper Copper 6wt-pct
    Ore Lead Lead 22wt-pct
    Major Ore Silver Silver 847g/mt

Comments on the production information

  • 1,232 TONS OF SILVER LEAD ORE VALUED AT $62,795 WAS PRODUCED IN 1877

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Unknown
    Length 56.69M
    Overall depth 76.2M

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPED BY 2600 FOOT ADIT, 400 FOOT INCLINE SHAFT, A 250 FOOT VERTICLE SHAFT, AND 3 OR MORE DRIFTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HOSE, BLAKE & SMITH 1976 GEO & MIN RESOURCES OF WHITE PINE CO. NEV., NEV BUREAU OF MINES & GEO BULL 85

  • Deposit

    HILL, JAMES M, 1916 NOTES ON SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN EASTERN NEVADA, U.S. GEO BULL 648

  • Production

    HOSE, 1976

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSITS IN THE IRON MOUNTAIN AREA AT THE NORTHERN END OF THE DISTRICT CONSIST OF VERY COMPLEX, IRREGULARLY BEDDED CONTACT METASOMATIC ORES CONTAINING IRON, BERYLLIUM, TUNGSTEN, FLUORITE, COPPER, LEAD, ZINC AND MOLYBDENUM. SOUTHEAST OF CUCHILLO PEAK ARE LEAD-ZINC METASOMATIC AND REPLACEMENT DEPOSITS AND NORTH OF CUCHILLO MOUNTAIN SIMILAR DEPOSITS OF LEAD-COPPER OCCUR. VERY LITTLE GOLD AND SILVER OCCUR IN THE ORE DEPOSITS OF THIS DISTRICT. IN THE CROSS MOUNTAIN AREA FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS OCCUR IN VOID FILLING FISSURE VEINS AND JASPEROID-FLUORITE REPLACEMENT MANTOS.
Deposit CRIB SITES AND RECORD NUMBERS WITHIN THIS DISTRICT ARE IRON MOUNTAIN DEPOSITS(W017012) ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Deposit Discovery Year: 1880'S

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1976 Weeks, Robert U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-1979 Giorgi, Albert John (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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