Mine detail: Wilson and Wheeler Mine Area

Previously called 'Pine GroveTelluride Claims'

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Location

Lat / long: 38.67991, -119.12154

Resource(M)

Primary: Gold
Secondary: Silver
Tertiary: Copper
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Gangue: Pyrite, Quartz, Calcite, Limonite
Orebody form: lenses, stringers; tabular
Discovery year: 1866

Production

Operation type: Surface-Underground
Deposit type: pluton-related ;shear zone
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1870
Last production ended: 1899

Geology

Host type:Monzonite,Quartz Monzonite
Associated type:Granite,Porphyry,Rhyolite
Structure:NW-trending fault. sheared graniorite cut by dikes of granite porphyry and capped bt Tertiary rhyolite.
Tectonic:continental magmatic arc

References

MRDSM232540
DEP10310366
Reference{Deposit:: NBMG MI-1997}{Deposit:: Northern Miner, 7/11/94.}{Deposit:: Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest Plan of Operation Notice, 5/2/97}{Deposit:: Koschmann, A. H. and Bergendahl, M. H., 1968, Principal Gold Producing Districts of the United States; USGS Prof. Paper 610, p. 187-188.}{Deposit:: Raymond, R. W., 1869, Mineral Resources of States and Territories West of the Rocky Mountains: Washington, D.C., p. 116.}{Deposit:: Moore, J.G.,1969, Geology and Mineral Deposits of Lyon, Douglas and Ormsby Counties, Nevada; NBMG Bull 75. Hill, 1912, Mining Districts of the Western United States, USGS Bull 507.}{Deposit:: Quade, Jack, 1989, Telluride Claims, Wilson Mining District, Lyon County, NBMG Site Visit 6/14/89, NBMG Unpublished Mining District Files .}{Deposit:: Long, K.R., DeYoung, J.H., Jr., and Ludington, S.D., 1998, Database of significant deposits of gold, silver, copper, lead,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.}
ReporterSchruben, Paul G., LaPointe, D.D.