Mine detail: Tonopah Divide Mine

Previously called 'Falcon Exploration Mine and Mill'

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Location

Lat / long: 37.99605, -117.24008

Resource(M)

Primary: Gold, Silver
Tertiary: Molybdenum
Ore: Cerargyrite, Gold, Molybdite, Powellite
Gangue: Quartz, Sericite
Orebody form: SHORT IRREGULAR SHOOTS
Discovery year: 1917

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Vein
Production size: Small
Development status: Producer
First production started: 1901

Geology

Host type:Rhyolite
Associated type:Rhyolite

References

MRDSM232040
DEP10044552
Reference{Deposit:: KNOPF, A., 1921, THE DIVIDE SILVER DISTRICT, NEVADA, IN RANSOME, F.L., GALE, H.S., AND BURCHARD, E.F., EDS., CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC GEOLOGY: USGS BULL. 715, P. 165-167.}{Deposit:: SCHILLING, J.H., 1962, AN INVENTORY OF MOLYBDENUM OCCURRENCES IN NEVADA: NEV. BUREAU OF MINES REPT. 2.}{Deposit:: CARPENTER, J.A., 1919, THE DIVIDE DISTRICT: ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURN., VOL. 107, NO. 20, P. 859-861.}{Deposit:: YOUNG, G.J., 1920, DIVIDE SILVER-GOLD DISTRICT OF NEVADA: ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, VOL. 109, NO. 2, P. 62-66.}{Deposit:: DIVISION OF MINE INSPECTION, 1983, DIRECTORY OF NEVADA MINE OPERATIONS ACTIVE DURING CALENDAR YEAR 1983.}{Production:: KNOPF, 1921, P. 165; LINCOLN, 1923, P. 64}
ReporterWong, George (Roberts, Ralph), La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.)