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Ruby D Claims

Past Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, 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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10104104
MRDS ID M241925
Record type Site
Current site name Ruby D Claims
Alternate or previous names Stateline Mine & Mill

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.4073, 37.29634 (WGS84)
Elevation 1774

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gold Point SW(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Last Chance Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Death Valley-Lower Amargosa(hydrologic unit)

Northern Mojave(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(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 Esmeralda

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
007S 041E 26 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ON S. SIDE OF SLATE RIDGE ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)
  • THE PLAYA IS ABOUT 3.5 MILES LONG (N-S) AND NEARLY 1 MILE WIDE ON AVERAGE WITH AN AREA OF 4 SQ MILES.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Gold Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Strong In Places

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Sylvania Pluton
    Rock description Sylvania Pluton
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Phyllite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Siltstone
    Rock unit name Wyman Formation
    Rock description Wyman

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.4073, 37.29634
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Iron-Stained Fractures

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike NW
    Dip 45 NE
    Thickness 6.1M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Bedding Plane Faults, Intersecting Shears.

Comments on the geologic information

  • COULD BE REMNANT ROOF PENDENT.? MOST ROCKS ARE EXTENSIVELY FRACTURED AND FE STAINED.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Hornsilver (Gold Point, Lime Point) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 304.8M

Comments on the workings information

  • INCLINED SHAFT AT HEAD OF MILL; ABOUT 500 FT WEST OF MILL AND SHAFT IS A CUT 100-FT LONG AND 20 FT DEEP, PERHAPS WITH STOPES BELOW
  • PITS, TREATMENT PLANTS

Comments on development

  • ORE WAS SAID TO AVERAGE $40.00/TON IN GOLD (LATE 1800'S). A MILL EXISTED HERE IN LATE 1800'S. RUINS STILL PRESENT IN 1966, REPORTED TO HAVE OPERATED IN 1930'S.
  • BORAX WAS PRODUCED FROM THE MARSH AS EARLY AS 1873, IN 1875 PACIFIC BORAX CO.MOVED ITS PLANT TO FISH LAKE VALLEY FROM COLUMBUS, AND BORATE DEPOSITS WERE WORKED FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS THEREAFTER. OPERATIONS WERE SUSPENDED SHORTY AFTER 1883.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USBM, 1978, MILS

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL 308, P. 194-195

  • Deposit

    BAKER, ARTHUR, III., 1966, UNPUBLISHED NOTES ON SCOUTING EXPEDITION: NBMG FILE 92 (ITEM 6).

  • Deposit

    SMITH/BENTZ, 1983, FIELD EXAMINATION, NBMG, 10 MAY, 83.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit QUARTZ VEIN MATERIAL FOUND ON DUMPS WAS VOGGY, CARRYING, FRESH AN D OXIDIZED, PYRITE, CHACOPYRITE IN PODS, CLOTS AND STRINGERS. VEINS WAS COATED FE STAINING
Deposit PRODUCTION LARGELY FROM NEAR SURFACE ULEXITE NODULES, BUT ALSO SOME PORDUCTION FROM BORAX EFFLORESCENCE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1982 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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