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Summit Canyon Mine

Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Barium-Barite, Copper, Silver
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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. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10100739
MRDS ID M231808
Record type Site
Current site name Summit Canyon Mine
Alternate or previous names Rex, Bart, Jan, And Summit Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.27982, 38.97992 (WGS84)
Elevation 2591
Relative position NEAR THE HEAD OF SUMMIT CANYON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

South Toiyabe Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ione Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Northern Big Smoky Valley(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
013N 042E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED TOWNSHIP

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Barium-Barite Critical Primary
Copper Tertiary
Silver Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Palmetto Formation
    Rock description Palmetto Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 10-20W
    Dip 80-85N
    Length 53.34M
    Width 4.57M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • No Information

Comments on the geologic information

  • VEINS ARE VUGGY. LENSES OF BARITE OCCUR ALONG STRIKE OF BEDS. ONE NARROW QUARTZ VEIN IN QUARTZITE-BARITE ROCK ON DUMP CONTAINED PODS OF TETRAHEDRITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1958
Discoverer Kohlmoos, Bill And Donohue, Jim
Year of first production 1963
Year of last production 1982

Mining district

District name Twin River District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Hartley, Jerry - Republic Resources
    First year 1960
  • Type Operator
    Owner Reliable Meat Co.
    Home office San Francisco
    First year 1963
  • Type Owner
    Owner Kohlmoss, Bill, Locke, Gene And Betty
    First year 1981

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A CROSSCUT ADIT.

Comments on development

  • EQUIPMENT PRESENT ON SITE, AND RECENT BULLDOZER WORK DONE IN 1981.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HORTON, R.C., 1963, AN INVENTORY OF BARITE OCCURRENCES IN NEVADA: NBMG REPORT 4

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    TINGLEY, J.V., 1981, FIELD EXAMINATION,9/17/81.

  • Production

    HORTON, 1963, P. 15

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NARROW QUARTZ VEINS ALONG BEDDING IN FOLDED, STEEPLY-DIPPING PHYLLITE. SHEAR ZONES PARALLEL BEDDING

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1981 Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAY-1982 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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