Mine detail: Gold Crown Mine

Previously called 'Silver Leaf'

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Location

Lat / long: 39.7491, -114.62697

Resource(M)

Primary: Silver
Secondary: Lead
Tertiary: Manganese
Orebody form: THIN LENSES
Discovery year: 1882

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1898

Geology

Host type:Limestone
Associated type:Tuff,Rhyodacite,Quartz Latite,Andesite
Structure:Numerous Faults, Fissure, N40w

References

MRDSM031211
DEP10037250
Reference{Deposit:: HILL, JAMES M, 1916, NOTES ON SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN EASTERN NEVADA, US GEO. BULL. 648}{Deposit:: HOSE, R. K., BLAKE, M. C. JR., AND SMITH, R., 1976, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF WHITE PINE COUNTY, NEV. BUREAU OF MINES, BULL 85.}{Deposit:: MINING RECORD CLIPPINGS, 1937, NBMG FILE 322.}{Deposit:: USBM, 1983, MILS DATA.}{Deposit:: COUCH, B.F.,AND CARPENTER, J.A., 1943, NBMG BULL 38, P. 150.}{Production:: COUCH & CARPENTER, 1943, P.150.}
ReporterGiorgi, Albert John (Roberts, Ralph), La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.)