Mine detail: West End Consolid. Mining Co.

Previously called 'West End Consolidated Mining Co.'

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Location

Lat / long: 38.06661, -117.23425

Resource(B)

Primary: Silver, Gold
Tertiary: Barium-Barite, Mercury
Ore: Argentite
Gangue: Barite, Quartz
Discovery year: 1901

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Replacement Vein
Production size: Large
Development status: Past Producer

Geology

Host rock:Mizpah Trachyte;West End Rhyolite
Host type:Rhyolite,Trachyte
Structure:Monarch-Pittsburg Fault, Macnamara Fault, Edwards Fault
Alteration processes:Silicification, Sericitization, Kaolinization.

References

MRDSM055300
DEP10040494
Reference{Deposit:: BAILEY, E. H., U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, PERSONAL FILES}{Deposit:: BAILEY AND PHOENIX, 1944, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS OF NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 41}{Deposit:: BURGESS, 1911, THE HALOGEN SALTS OF SILVER AND ASSOC. MINERALS AT TONOPAH; ECON. GEOL. V. 6, P. 21}{Deposit:: SPURR, J.E., 1905, GEOLOGY OF THE TONOPAH MINING DISTRICT: USGS PROF. PAPER 42, P. 184-188.}{Deposit:: CARPENTER, JA, ET AL, 1953, HISTORY OF FIFTY YEARS OF MINING AT TONOPAH: NBMG BULL. 51.}{Deposit:: NOLAN, TB, 1935, UNDERGROUND GEOL. OF TONOPAH MIN. DIST.: NBMG BULL. 23}{Production:: CARPENTER, ET AL, 1953, P. 149}
ReporterBergquist, Joel R., La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.)