Mine detail: Mohawk Mine

Previously called 'RelocatedRickard No. 1 and No. 2 Shafts, Incline Shaft.Slim Jim Fraction Originally Tennessee and Berkeley Claims,Hayes-Monnette No. 1 and No. 2 Shafts, Mackenzie Shaft, Oddie Shaft,Begore Shaft, Kalfus Shaft, Curtis No. 1 Shaft, Mcnaughton Shaft,Mohawk Nos. 1 and 2,Partof Goldfield Consolidated Mines Co. After 1906, Mohawk Group,Mohawk Shaft, Frances-Mohawk Shaft, Upper Curtis Shaft, Truett Shaft,Mohawk Nol 1 Shaft, Mohawk No. 2 Shaft,'

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Location

Lat / long:

37.71717, -117.22369

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold
Secondary:	Silver
Tertiary:	Arsenic, Copper, Antimony, Zinc, Bismuth
Ore:	Bismuthinite, Famatinite, Gold, Sphalerite, Tennantite
Gangue:	Alunite, Marcasite, Pyrite, Quartz
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR TO TABULAR
Discovery year:	1903

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Medium
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1906

Geology

Host type:	Dacite,Latite
Structure:	Faulting, Gouge Zones Terminate Ore Zones
Alteration processes:	Silicification, Alunitization

References

MRDS	M241885
DEP	10104101
Reference	{Deposit:: RANSOME, F.L., 1909, USGS P.P. 66.}{Deposit:: NBMG REPORT 33, P. 77-86.}{Deposit:: TOLMAN & AMBROSE, 1934, ECON. GEOL VOL.L 29, P 255-279}{Deposit:: MOUNT, PRISCILLA, 1964, NBMG BULL 65, P. 78.}{Production:: SHAMBERGER, H.A., 1982, P. 180; RANSOME, 1909, P. 204-205.}
Reporter	La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.)