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Paymaster

Past Producer in Washoe 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. Alteration
  9. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Ore body information
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10103930
MRDS ID M231166
Record type Site
Current site name Paymaster
Alternate or previous names Fravel-Paymaster, Poe Consolidated

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.90768, 39.59183 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Washoe(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Verdi(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Reno(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Reno(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Honey-Eagle Lakes(hydrologic unit)

North Lahontan(hydrologic accounting unit)

North Lahontan(hydrologic subregion)

California(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 Washoe

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 020N 018E 24 Nevada

Commodities

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

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Argentite Ore
Enargite Ore
Galena Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Propylization

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 154
USGS model code 25e
Deposit model name Epithermal quartz-alunite Au
Mark3 model number 38

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist

Nearby scientific data

(1) Metavolcanic rocks
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 30 TO 70 E
    Dip VERT

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Peavine District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • PAYMASTER SHAFT, 400 FT DEEP, HAS 2000 FT OF LATERAL WORKINGS (OVERTON, P 76). ECONOMIC MINERALIZATION OCCURS IN QUARTZ CALCITE STRINGERS OR VEINLETS, THESE VEINLETS ARE CONCENTRATED IN LODES OR STOCKWORK-LIKE BODIES OF UNKNOWN DIMENSIONS WHICH, IN GENERAL, PARALLEL THE FOLIATION IN THE METAMORPHIC ROCKS (N30 DEG-70 DEG E). THE WALL ROCKS ARE BLEACHED IN THE ZONE OF WEATHERING AND GRADE DOWNWARD INTO GREENISH PROPYLITIZED ROCKS CONTAINING ABUNDANT PYRITE (BONHAM, P 78)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BONHAM, HF, GEOL & MIN DEP, WASHOE-STOREY CO, NEV, NBMG BULL 70, 1969

  • Deposit

    OVERTON, TD, MIN RES DOUGLAS, ORMSBY, WASHOE CO, NEV, NBMG BULL 46, 1947

  • Deposit

    HILL, JM, USGS BULL 594, 1915.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1978 Tingley, J.V. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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

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