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Tem Piute Silver Mine Silver Mine

Past Producer in Lincoln county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Antimony, Arsenic, 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. Mineral occurrence model information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10105796
MRDS ID W016453
Record type Site
Current site name Tem Piute Silver Mine Silver Mine
Alternate or previous names Sterling Claim, Ryan
Related records 10149423

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.64254, 37.61246 (WGS84)
Elevation 2012
Relative position 85 MILES W OF CALIENTE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tempiute Mountain South(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Timpahute Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Caliente(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Sand Spring-Tikaboo Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(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 Lincoln

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
04S 56E 11 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Antimony Critical Primary
Arsenic Critical Primary
Copper Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • AG ORE MINERAL NOT GIVEN IN THE LITERATURE

Analytical data

Result 13-81 OZ/T AG IN ORE PRODUCED.

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 85
USGS model code 22c
Deposit model name Polymetallic veins
Mark3 model number 46

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Devonian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.64254, 37.61246
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Rocks Are Steeply East Dipping, Overturned To The North

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORES CAME FROM SILICEOUS VEINS AND REPLACEMENT DEPOSITS ALONG BRECCIA ZONES. ORES ARE OXIDIZED

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1868
Discoverer Messrs Service And Plumb?
Year of first production 1869
Year of last production 1935

Mining district

District name Tem Piute Districtdistrict

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the production information

  • 65 CARLOADS OF ORE WORTH $65,600 REPORTED MAINLY FROM THE STERLING CLAIM

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TSCHANZ, C.M., AND PAMPEYAN, E.H., 1970, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF LINCOLN CO. NEVADA, NEVADA BUR. OF MINES, BULL 73 P.

  • Deposit

    HILL, J.M., 1916, NOTES ON SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN EASTERN NEVADA USGS BULL 648 P.

  • Deposit

    COUCH, B.F., CARPENTER, J.A., 1943, NEVADA'S METAL AND MINERAL PRODUCTION (1859-1940, INCLUSIVE) UNIV. OF NEVADA BULL 38, P. 85-89

  • Deposit

    BUSECK, P.R., 1962, PH.D. THESIS, COLUMBIA UNIV.,N.Y

  • Deposit

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

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1980 Harner, Joy L. (Roberts, Ralph J.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1984 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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