Mine detail: Mazuma Hills Mine

Previously called 'Mazuma Hills GroupNBMG Sample Site 2817Reagan Mine AdjoiningLookout ClaimsOutlook Claims'

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Location: Pershing County, Nevada, United States, North America
Lat / long: 40.4685, -118.78627
dep_id: 10042432
mrds_id: M060225
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Gold
Minor mineral: Silver
Trace mineral: Lead, Antimony, Copper
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Chalcopyrite, Electrum
gangue: Calcite, Chlorite, Pyrite, Quartz
model: 150: Epithermal vein, Comstock
alteration: Two Periods Of Alteration; An Early Pervasive Propylitic Event And A Second Argillic Alteration.
conc_proc: Oxidation Not Very Strong.
Reporter: Johnson, Maureen G., La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.), Phinisey, J. D. (Marcus, S.), Humphries, S. E. (Marcus, S.), Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.)
hrock_type: Rhyolite
arock_type: Rhyolite
Year first produced: 1907
disc_yr: 1905
discr: William Stauts
References:
  • Deposit:: QUADE, JACK, 6 SEP 84, NBMG FIELD EXAMINATION AND SAMPLE ANALYSIS.
  • Deposit:: NBMG STAFF, 1985, A MINERAL INVENTORY OF THE PARADISE-DENIO AND SONOMA-GERLACH RESOURCE AREAS, WINNEMUCCA DISTRICT, NEVADA: NBMG OFR 85-3.
  • Deposit:: BRUCE, W. R., 1980, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE SEVEN TROUGHS MINING DISTRICT; PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA.; SOCIETY OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGISTS FIELD TRIP GUIDE, UNPUB.
  • Deposit:: JOHNSON, M. G., 1977, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 89, P. 87-89.
  • Deposit:: SHAMBERGER, H. A., 1972, THE STORY OF SEVEN TROUGHS, PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA - HISTORIC MINING CAMPS OF NEVADA; NO. 3: USGS AND NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES, NEVADA HISTORICAL PRESS, CARSON CITY.
  • Deposit:: RANSOME, F. L., 1909, NOTES ON SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN HUMBOLDT COUNTY, NEVADA: USGS BULL 414, P. 19-25.
  • Deposit:: VANDERBURG, W. O., 1936, RECONNAISSANCE OF MINING DISTRICTS IN PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA: USBM IC 6902, P. 37-39.
  • Deposit:: LINCOLN, F. C., 1923, MINING DISTRICTS AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF NEVADA: NEVADA NEWSLETTER PUBLISHING CO., RENO.
  • Deposit:: COUCH, B. F., AND CARPENTER, J. A., 1943, NEVAD* MAL AND MINERAL PRODUCTION (1859-1940, INCLUSIVE): NBMG BULL. 38, NO. 4, P. 130-131.
  • Deposit:: STAGER, H.K., AND TINGLEY, J.V., 1988, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS IN NEVADA: NBMG BUL 105, P. 192.
  • Deposit:: SILBERMAN, M. L., JOHNSON, M. G., KOSKI, R. A., AND ROBERTS, R. J., 1973, K-AR AGES OF MINERAL DEPOSITS AT WONDER, SEVEN TROUGHS, IMLAY, TEN MILE AND ADELAIDE MINING DISTRICTS IN CENTRAL NEVADA: ISOCHRON/WEST, NO. 8, P. 31-35.
  • Production:: COUCH AND CARPENTER (1943).
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