Mine detail: Nevada Packard Mine

Previously called 'Packard Mine'

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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, Gold, Chalcopyrite, Galena
Gangue: Quartz, Pyrite, Sericite, Feldspar
Orebody form: tabular to irregular
Discovery year: 1912

Production

Operation type: Surface-Underground
Deposit type: lode, stockwork, low-sulfide gold-quartz veins
Production size: Small
Development status: Producer
First production started: 1890
Last production ended: 1983

Geology

Host rock:Weaver Rhyolite
Host type:Rhyolite
Structure:Rocks in the range are folded into a broad anticline, broken by major north-trending faults and cross faults., The mine area is cut by NE-trending major fault zones including the Packard Mine fault.
Alteration processes:Host rocks are sericitized.

References

MRDSM060377
DEP10310356
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.}{Deposit:: Long, K.R., DeYoung, J.H., Jr., and Ludington, S.D., 1998, Database of significant deposits of gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc in the United States; Part A, Database description and analysis; part B, Digital database: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-206, 33 p., one 3.5 inch diskette.}{Deposit:: SEG Newsletter, April 2001.}{Deposit:: Newmont website, 2004}{Deposit:: Crafford, A.E.J. (ed.), 2003, GSN Road Log 44, Coal Canyon Road East from I80 Exit 112.}{Deposit:: Coeur *lene Mines Corporation 2000 Annual Report}{Deposit:: Harvey, David, Chadwick, Thomas, and Krewedl, Dieter, 2002, Geology and Mineralization in the Rochester and Nevada Packard Deposits, in Geological Society of Nevada Fall 2002 Field Trip Guidebook, Precious Metals Deposits of the Humboldt Range, New Discoveries in an Old District; GSN Special Publication No. 36.}
ReporterLaPointe, D.D. , Schruben, Paul G.