Mine detail: Silver City Lode Deposits

Previously called 'Haywood-Santiago (Oliver Hills)DaytonAlhambra Lode'

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Location

Lat / long: 39.27095, -119.64745

Resource(M)

Primary: Gold, Silver
Tertiary: Manganese, Iron
Ore: Gold, Electrum, Pyrite, Argentite
Gangue: Calcite, Ankerite, Quartz
Orebody form: tabular
Discovery year: 1859

Production

Operation type: Surface-Underground
Deposit type: vein
Production size: Large
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1873

Geology

Host type:Rhyolite,Andesite
Structure:Silver City Fault

References

DEP10310404
Reference{Deposit:: Gianella, V.P., 1936, Geology of the Silver City District and the southern portion of the Comstock Lode, Nevada; Univ. Nev. Bull. Vol. 30, No. 9}{Deposit:: WPA State Write* Project, 1940-41, Individual histories of the mines of the Comstock; unpublished open-file report, Nev. Bur. Mines & Geol.}{Deposit:: Long, K.R., DeYoung, J.H., Jr., and Ludington, S.D., 1998, Significant deposits of gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc in the United States: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 90-206A, 33 p.; 98-206B. one 3.5 inch diskette.}
ReporterLaPointe, D.D. , Schruben, Paul G.