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Gold Crater Mine

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper
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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. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10104106
MRDS ID M241965
Record type Site
Current site name Gold Crater Mine
Alternate or previous names Gold Crater . Claims, Gold Crater Consolidated Mining Co. Property

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.88201, 37.53467 (WGS84)
Elevation 1615
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position NEAR GOLD CRATER

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pack Rat Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Cactus Flat(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Cactus-Sarcobatus Flats(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

DOD(Federal land areas administered by DOD)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 005S 045E 01 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • 22 CLAIMS AND FRACTIONS.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chrysocolla Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification, Kaolinization

Analytical data

Result ORE SAID TO RUN $15/TON IN 1923. SAMPLESZ ASSAYED TR. TO 0.56 OZ/T AU AND 0.3 TO 15.34 OZ/T AG (1919)

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.88201, 37.53467
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike W
    Dip 70-80 S
    Length 91.44M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Crushing, Shear Zone.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1914
Year of first production 1919

Mining district

District name Gold Crater District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Gold Prance Mining And Leasing Co.
    First year 1923
  • Type Owner
    Owner Forman, J. H.
    First year 1919

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 457.2M
    Overall depth 80.77M

Comments on the workings information

  • 265 FT SHAFT WITH CROSS CUTS; HOIST & SMALL MILL; DRIFTING ON 40, 80, 210 AND 265-FT LEVELS

Comments on development

  • GOLD PRINCE CO. A LEASED GOLD CRATER CONSOLIDATED MINING CO. PROPERTY PRIOR TO 1923. IDLE IN 1923. A FEW TONS WERE SHIPPED PRIOR TO 1919

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LINCOLN F.C; 1923, MINING DISTRICTS AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF NEVADA: NEVADA NEWSLETTER PUB. CO., RENO, NV.

  • Deposit

    WEED, W.H., ED., 1922, THE MINES HANDBOOK, VOL. XV, P. 1208 AND 1214

  • Deposit

    BLACK, F.C., 1919, GOLD CRATER GROUP; NBMG FILE 230, ITEM 1.

  • Deposit

    POTENTIAL NATIONAL RESISTER SITE REPORT, LOCATION NO. NY 066; NBMG FILE 230 ITEM 2.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE SHOOTS ARE SMALL AND NOT PERSISTENT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-83 La Pointe, D.D. (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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