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Northumberland Mine

Past Producer in Nye 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. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10072159
MRDS ID W016473
Record type Site
Current site name Northumberland Mine
Alternate or previous names Blue Bell Mine, Monitor Mine
Related records 10173775, 10173835

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.78424, 38.99994 (WGS84)
Elevation 2606
Relative position NEAR THE HEAD OF E. NORTHUMBERLAND CANYON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Northumberland Pass(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mount Jefferson(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Diamond-Monitor Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED TOWNSHIP AND RANGE; PREVIOUS QUAD DESIGNATION = TONOPAH 1:250000

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cerargyrite Ore
Gold Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Northumberland Intrusion
    Rock description Northumberland Intrusion
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Argillite
    Rock unit name Pogonip Group;Pogonip Group
    Rock description Pogonip Group;Pogonip Group

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.78424, 38.99994
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Thrust Faults, Intrusions
Type of structure Local
Structure description Thrust Faults

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Calcareous Argillite Bed Intruded By Felsitic Porphyry Dikes.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Discovery year 1866

Mining district

District name Northumberland District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Homestake Mining Co.
    First year 1968
  • Type Owner
    Owner Northumberland Mining Co.
    First year 1951

Comments on the production information

  • ORE FROM 1939 VALUED AT $1,146,475.

Comments on the workings information

  • THREE OPEN PITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KLEINHAMPL, F.J. AND ZIONY, J.I., GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSIT OF NORTHERN NYE CO.: NEV. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, BULLETIN, IN PRESS

  • Production

    KLEINHAMPL, 1980

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LADY CUMMINGS VEIN; NORTHUMBERLAND VEIN; DETROIT VEIN

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1976 Weeks, Robert U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-DEC-1980 Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

  • Homestake Mining Co. — acquired by Subsidiary of Barrick Gold (2001)
    Operator of the historic Homestake Mine in South Dakota; acquired by Barrick Gold in 2001.

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.

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