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Goodsprings Deposit

Past Producer in Clark county in Nevada, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10310512
MRDS ID M031116
MAS/MILS ID 0320030116
Record type Site
Current site name Goodsprings Deposit
Alternate or previous names Old Keystone Mine
Related records 10037224, 10221928

Comments on the site identification

  • This deposit encompasses the area in the Goodsprings Mining district called the Old Keystone Mine, MRDS record M031116. This record includes updates of all information in record M031116.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.52262, 35.83512 (WGS84)
Elevation 1500
Relative position The deposit is located about five miles due west of the Goodsprings townsite.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Clark(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Shenandoah Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mesquite Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Kingman(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Ivanpah-Pahrump Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Clark

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 024S 057S 25 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • The deposit is located in upper Keystone Wash. UTM is from Keystone Mine adit.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • Ore Materials: gold

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 72
USGS model code 19a
Deposit model name Polymetallic replacement
Mark3 model number 47

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Cambrian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Cambrian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Goodsprings dolomite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.52262, 35.83512
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant Yes
Discovery year 1855

Mining district

District name Goodsprings District

Land status

Ownership category Private
Ownership category BLM Administrative Area
Area name Las Vegas BLM Administrative District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Durvada Resources, Ltd.
    Year 1991

Comments on the workings information

  • Old underground workings and prospect pits.

Comments on other economic factors

  • In 1990, the remaining resource in Sandy Valley mine, Goodsprings District, was reported to be 58000 kilotonnes of ore containing 99.5 tonnes gold. Between 1856-1962 the mine produced 689 kilotonnes of ore containing 2.8 tonnes gold, 65.2 tonnes silver, 2.2 kilotonnes copper, 42.7 kilotonnes lead, and 98.8 kilotonnes zinc (Long and others).
    For the Old Keystone Mine area Goodsprings deposit, in 1990 the estimated geologic resource was 64 Mt grading 0.05 opt Au, and in 1996 reserves were reported to be 659 Kt ore grading 0.078 opt Au.
    The Keystone Mine area produced about 1000 ounces of gold in 1990.

Comments on development

  • In 1996, Leader Mining International reported that they were commencing a drilling program on the Yellowhorse gold mine. Yellowhorse is described as an alkali porphyry system that is gold rich and sulfide poor, with significant values of platinum, silver, and copper.
    In 2004, Boxxer Gold Corp. began a diamond core drilling program on its Boss property, located in the Goodsprings mining district about 55 miles westsouthwest of Las Vegas. The preliminary drilling program will total approximately 3,000 feet of HQ-size core from five to six shallow (400- to 600-foot) angled holes designed to test three targets identified by geologic mapping, rockchip sampling and geochemical/geophysical survey programs completed since the fall of 2003. Concurrent with the drilling program, detailedgeologic mapping, rock chip sampling, and prospecting will continue on the east side of the property where several areas of high-grade gold-arsenic mineralization have been identified along the Keystone thrust fault.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Longwell and others, 1965

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    NBMG MI-90

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    NBMG MI-91

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    NBMG MI-92

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    NBMG MI-93

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    NBMG MI 95

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    NBMG MI-96

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    NBMG MI-97

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    NBMG MI-98

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    Amer. Mines (1991-1992, 1995-1997)

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    1991; Skillings, 1990

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    Northern Miner, 6/3/96

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    NBMG Map 91, 3rd

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    Amer. Mines (1991-1992), 1991

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    Mesquite Lake Land Status, 1979

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    NBMG Bull 62

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    MASMILS 0320030116

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    Mining Activity Reports, 1940

  • Deposit

    Long, K.R., DeYoung, J.H., Jr., and Ludington, S.D., 1998, Significant deposits of gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc in the United States: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 90-206A, 33 p.; 98-206B. one 3.5 inch diskette.

  • Deposit

    Boxxer Gold Corp. press release, 4/29/2004.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Polymetallic vein and replacement.
Several areas of high-grade gold-arsenic mineralization have been identified along the Keystone thrust fault.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-2003 LaPointe, D.D. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Editor 01-SEP-2007 Schruben, Paul G. U.S. Geological Survey Converted from S&A FileMaker format to Oracle. Edit checks on rocks, units, and ages with Geolex search, and other fields.

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