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Antelope Springs District

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Alteration
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Geologic structures
  9. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60001010
MRDS ID M231904
Record type District
Current site name Antelope Springs District

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.7292, 37.57715 (WGS84)
Relative position LOCATION DATA COMES FROM GOLD BUG GROUP CLAIMS(#M231903) WHICH IS LOCATED IN THE DISTRICT. (ORIGINAL RECORD M231904 HAD NO LAT/LONG).

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Trappman Hills(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

Comments on the location information

  • The Antelope Springs district lies on the east slope of the Cactus Range, near the southeastern end of the main part of the range. Antelope Springs is the original name of the district. Sulfide, a small area surrounding Sulfide Well, on the old Goldfield Road at the southern tip of the Cactus Range, and Blackthorn Camp, west of Antelope Pass, may have been considered separate districts but are both now included in the Antelope Springs district.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Alteration

  • (Local) STRONG SILICIFICATION
  • (Local) PROPYLITIC
  • (Local) KAOLINIZATION

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.7292, 37.57715
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure name FAULTING
Structure description NORTH-TRENDING FAULTS, DIPPING 30W WITH A DOWNWARD DISPLACEMENT OF 1,000 FEET ON THE WEST SIDE.

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault/fracture

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Discovery year 1903

Mining district

District name ANTELOPE SPRINGS DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • General

    Tingley, Joseph V., Report 47, Second Edition, Mining Districts of Nevada, 1998, 329 p.

  • Deposit

    Cornwall, H.R., 1972, Geology And Mineral Deposits Of Southern Nye Co.: NBMG, Bulletin 77, P. 35.

Beyond USGS

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

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