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Gordon Tunnel

Past Producer in Eureka 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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10098610
MRDS ID M232389
Record type Site
Current site name Gordon Tunnel

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.99812, 39.47493 (WGS84)
Elevation 2195

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Eureka(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pinto Summit(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mount Hamilton(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ely(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

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 Eureka

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 019N 053E 35 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UTM PRECISION 100 M; 1:2400 QUADRANGLE MAP IS A 1963 EDITION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Gold Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Eldorado Dolomite
    Rock description Eldorado Dolomite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.99812, 39.47493
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR, TO TABULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fractured, Permeable Zones

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE OXIDIZED ORE OCCURS ALONG FRACTURES AND FISSURES, AS IRREGULAR PODS WITHIN THE DOLOMITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Eureka District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • NINE UNCONNECTED ADITS; OPEN CUTS.

Comments on development

  • IN 1882, THE DEPOSIT WAS PRODUCING 6 TONS SULPHUR/DAY
  • NINE UN-CONNECTED ADITS AND A NUMBER OF OPEN CUTS ALONG PROSPECT RIDGE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES (ELY) MILS NO 112, REFERENCE NO 3201100205

  • Deposit

    VANDERBURG W.O. (1938) RECONNAISSANCE OF MINING DISTRICTS IN EUREKA CO., USBM 1.C.7022

  • Deposit

    NOLAN T.B. (1962) THE EUREKA MINING DISTRICT, USGS PROF PAPER 406

  • Production

    NOLAN, T.B., (1962)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit OXIDE ORE OCCURS ALONG FRACTURES AND FISSURES, AS IRREGULAR PODS IN THE DOLOMITE.
Deposit EXPLORATION CONSISTED OF NINE UNCONNECTED ADITS AND A NUMBER OF OPEN CUTS. THE PROPERTY IS LOCATED ALONG PROSPECT RIDGE, ONE OF FIVE MINERALIZED BLOCKS IN THE DISTRICT ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Deposit DISTRICT PRODUCED CONSIDERABLE SULPHUR FROM DEPOSITS SHOWN TO WHITE MEN BY INDIANS IN THE 1870'S. IN 1882, THE DEPOSIT WAS PRODUCING 6 TONS SULPHUR A DAY, AND THE ASSOCIATED CINNABAR HAD BEEN RECOGNIZED. NO ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO RECOVER HG UNTIL 1941, AND THE PRODUCTION WAS VERY SMALL ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Deposit Discovery Year: 1870'S

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1980 Kirkham, Richard A. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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