Mine detail: Nevada Packard Mines

Previously called 'NBMG Sample Site 2554 and 2555'

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Location

Lat / long:

40.26157, -118.17986

Resource(B)

Primary:	Silver
Secondary:	Gold
Tertiary:	Copper, Antimony, Arsenic, Barium-Barite, Lead
Ore:	Cerargyrite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold
Gangue:	Pyrite, Quartz, Sericite
Discovery year:	1912

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Producer

Geology

Host type:	Rhyolite
Associated type:	Rhyolite
Structure:	Reg.Struct: Broad Anticline, Broken By Major N-Trending Faults And Cross Faults, Ne Trending Major Fault Zones
Alteration processes:	Sericitization

References

MRDS	M060377
DEP	10042552
Reference	{Deposit:: JOHNSON, M.G., 1977, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 89}{Deposit:: KNOPF, A., 1924, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF ROCHESTER DISTRICT, NEVADA: USGS BULL. 762}{Deposit:: SCHRADER, F.C., 1914, ROCHESTER MINING DISTRICT, NEVADA: IN USGS BULL. 580}{Deposit:: SIRDEVAN, 1913, NOTES ON THE PACKARD GROUP, NBMG DISTRICT FILE 291, ITEM 5.}{Deposit:: SHAMBERGER, H. A., 1973, ROCHESTER: HISTORIC MINING CAMPS OF NEVADA, VOL. 4.}{Deposit:: NBMG MINING DISTRICT FILE 291, PRESS CLIPPINGS.}{Deposit:: BONHAM, H. F.,JR., 13 SEP 84, NBMG FIELD EXAMINATION AND SAMPLE ANALYSES.}{Deposit:: NBMG STAFF, 1985, NBMG OFR 85-3.}{Production:: NBMG DISTRICT FILE 291, PRESS CLIPPINGS, 1983.}{Reserve-Resource:: NBMG DISTRICT FILE 291, 1983 PRESS CLIPPINGS}
Reporter	Harner, Joy L. (Roberts, Ralph J.), La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.), Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.)