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Silver King Mine

Producer in Lincoln county in Nevada, United States with commodities Lead, 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  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 10109802
MRDS ID M242524
Record type Site
Current site name Silver King Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.87724, 38.29162 (WGS84)
Elevation 1929
Relative position SOUTHERN END OF CAVE VALLEY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Silver King Well(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wilson Creek Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lund(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Dry Lake Valley(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
Mount Diablo 005N 063E 15,14,PROJECTED,FROM,NORTH Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED AREA ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Limonite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Devonian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Devonian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Guilmette
    Rock description Guilmette

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.87724, 38.29162
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description N-Trending Normal Fault
Type of structure Local
Structure description E-W Fractures

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 55 W
    Dip 90
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault Zone; Igneous Contact

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Silver King (Sunnyside) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Anaconda Co.
    First year 1981
  • Type Owner
    Owner Hill And Hendrix
    First year 1980

Comments on the production information

  • 8-10 CARLOADS OF ORE PRODUCED (AG-PB)-IN ADDITION TO THAT ABOVE

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 152.4M

Comments on the workings information

  • 3 ADITS, AT LEAST ONE VERTICAL SHAFT, STOPES EXTEND TO SURFACE

Comments on development

  • PROPERTY WAS BEING DRILLED BY ANACONDA CO. IN 1981. -EVIDENCE OF SEVERAL DEEP HOLES; RIG ON PROPERTY AT TIME OF VISIT. NOTICE ON HEADFRAME-LOCATED FEB, 1980 BY HILL & HENDRIX.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TSCHANZ, C.M. AND PAMPEYAN, E.H., 1970, NBMG BULL 73.

  • Deposit

    TINGLEY, J.V., 1981, FIELD EXAMINATION, 6/14/81.

  • Deposit

    MINING WORLD, 1940, P.31, VOL 2, NO. 2.

  • Deposit

    NBMG OFR 82-9.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE BODIES OCCUR NEAR THE CONTACT OF LIMESTONE AND QUARTZ DIORITE PORPHYRY AS BOTH SMALL REPLACEMENT DEPOSITS AND VEINS. A 7-INCH STRINGER OF HEAVY PB-AG/AS SULFIDES WAS EXPOSED FOR 12 FT IN THE VEIN. ROCK ON DUMP AND AROUND SHAFT COLLAR IS A DARK LIMESTONE WITH MAROON CLOTS. FRACTURE ZONE AT SHAFT - N 55 W, VERTICAL; WHITE CALCITE VEIN 1/4 IN. THICK ON SURFACE; FRACTURE CAN BE TRACED ALONG OUTCROP EAST OF THE SHAFT; STOPES HAVE CAVED ALONG THE ZONE. UPPER (EASTERN) AREA OF WORKINGS (ON SIDE HILL PASS QUAD, SAMPLE SITE 269) EXPLORE REPLACEMENT LENSES IN LIMESTONE ALONG N 55 W STRUCTURE. LOWEST WORKINGS EXPOSE KAOLINIZED DIKE AT PORTAL; CONTACT WITH LIMESTONE TRENDS N 20 W, DIPS 60-65 SW; OLD DUMPS ALONG HILL SLOPE TO WEST ARE ON N 55-60 W FRACTURES IN LIMESTONE.
Deposit DISTRICT UNORGANIZED; SEVERAL PROSPECTS IN THE AREA. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT; 3 FIELD OBSERV

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1980 Harner, Joy L. (Roberts, Ralph J.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUN-1985 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.

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

  • Anaconda Co. — dissolved ~1977
    Acquired by Atlantic Richfield (ARCO) in 1977 and shut down most operations in the 1980s. Mineral assets were sold off piecemeal; some are now in Glencore via intermediate owners.

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.

External references

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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