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Windmill Mine

Prospect in Clark county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10097043
MRDS ID M031072
Record type Site
Current site name Windmill Mine
Alternate or previous names Finance Group
Related records 10149177

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.19275, 36.16194 (WGS84)
Elevation 1219
Relative position 3 MILES SE OF RATTLESNAKE PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Clark(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Jumbo Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lake Mead(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Las Vegas(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lake Mead(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(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 Clark

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
020S 070E 29 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED

Commodities

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

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Pyrite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.19275, 36.16194
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GOLD SILVER IN QUARTZ VEINLETS IN ALTERED ZONE IN GRANITE GNEISS, 1 - 4 FT. WIDE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Gold Butte

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Syphus And Gentry ( 1916 )

Comments on the production information

  • NO RECORDED PRODUCTION, BUT ORE SAID TO ASSAY $18 - 20/TON IN GOLD & SILVER.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 42.67M

Comments on development

  • NO RECORDED PRODUCTION, BUT ORE SAID TO ASSAY $18-20/TON IN GOLD AND SILVER.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LONGWELL, C. R., PAMPEYAN, E. H., BOWYER, B., ROBERTS, R. J., 1965 , GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF CLARK CO. NEV. BUREAU OF MINES BULL. 62 , P. 185 .

  • Deposit

    HILL, J. M., 1916 , NOTES ON SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN EASTERN NEVADA, USGS BULL. 648 P. 53 .

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1979 Harner, Joy L. (Roberts, Ralph J.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-FEB-1983 Shonnard, Ann T. (Tingley, Joe V.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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