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Wild Goose Vein

Past Producer in Humboldt county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Arsenic
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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. Geologic structures
  13. Ore body information
  14. Controls for ore emplacement
  15. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  16. Mining district
  17. Land status
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10104131
MRDS ID M242827
Record type Site
Current site name Wild Goose Vein
Alternate or previous names Silver Butte Mine In Part, Butte Mine, Nbmg Sample Site 2606

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.45903, 41.58878 (WGS84)
Elevation 1914

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Humboldt(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Spring City(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Quinn River Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

McDermitt(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Little Humboldt(hydrologic unit)

Humboldt(hydrologic accounting unit)

Black Rock Desert-Humboldt(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 Humboldt

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 043N 040E 22 SW Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • NW SIDE OF SPRING CITY CREEK. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Kaolin Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Sericite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Kaolinization, Sericitization Of Rhyolite

Analytical data

Result SAMPLE 2606 OF WHITE VEIN QUARTZ WITH SULFIDES CONTAINS 2 % FE, 0.02 % MG, 0.005 % TI, 300 PPM AG, +10000 PPM AS, 20 PPM B, 20 PPM BA, 20 PPM CU, 10 PPM NI, 10 PPM PB, AND 6.8 PPM AU (BY AA ANALYSIS).

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 150
USGS model code 25c
Deposit model name Epithermal vein, Comstock
Mark3 model number 16

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.45903, 41.58878
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Shear Zones

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • N-S Shear Zones

Comments on the geologic information

  • THIN SECTION OF DIKE SHOWED IT TO BE AN ALTERED RHYOLITE WITH KAOLIN AND SERICITE EMBAYED QUARTZ PHENOCRYSTS, SPHERULITIC TEXTURE, POSSIBLY A TUFF.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Spring City District; Paradise Valley District; Mount Rose District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFT, ADITS STOPES ALONG VEIN; PORTAL OF MOST RECENT ADIT HAS LOCKED RAIL STILL IN PLACE.

Comments on development

  • DISCOVERED IN 1868, ORIGINALLY WORKED BY PARADISE MINING CO., MOST RECENT WORK WITHIN LAST 20 YEARS (1984 REPORT); NO ACTIVITY IN 1984.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TINGLEY, J. V., 5 SEP 84, NBMG FIELD EXAMINATION REPORT AND SAMPLE ANALYSIS.

  • Deposit

    VANDERBURG, W. O., 1938, USBM I. C. 6995, P. 38-39.

  • Deposit

    WILLDEN, R., 1964, NBMG BULL 59, PL. I.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit WHITE QUARTZ VEIN FOLLOWS N-S SHEAR ZONE IN SCHIST. RHYOLITE DIKE CROPS OUT ON RIDGE TO WEST OF VEIN SYSTEM. N20E VEINS DO NOT APPEAR TO CUT OR CROSS THE N70W SHEAR ZONES. MASSIVE WHITE QUARTZ VEINS ALONG N70W ZONES ARE NOT WELL-MINERALIZED, WHILE N-S VEINS ARE. MINERALIZATION MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH LATER (?) RHYOLITE RATHER THAN WITH MASSIVE (EARLY) WHITE QUARTZ. SILVERY-WHITE ARSENOPYRITE(?) OCCURS IN QUARTZ AS SPRAYS AND CLOTS WITH FINE-GRAINED PYRITE, SOME RUBY SILVER. VEIN IS BRECCIATED AND RECEMENTED WITH CLEAR SILICA. PYRITE COATS VUGS IN CEMENTED BRECCIA.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1987 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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