Mine detail: Osceola District Lode Deposits

Previously called 'Tilford claimSkyline claimPaycheck claimApex claimHungry Three claimThree Sisters claimGilded Age MineGold Exchange GroupButterfield claimStar claimCrescent claimTime Check claimCumberland claimExchange claimWoodman claimGolden Eagle claimJanuary claimDirty Shirt MineSerpent claimBlack Mule MineHamptonSkyline claim groupsSummit GroupKing claimQueen claimGoldhill claimJune claimGold Crown claimSkipper MineLane Tilford Group'

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Location

Lat / long:

39.083, -114.39974

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold, Tungsten
Secondary:	Lead, Molybdenum
Tertiary:	Manganese
Ore:	Gold, Scheelite, Powellite, Fluorite, Calcite, Limonite, Manganite
Gangue:	Quartz
Orebody form:	tabular to pipelike
Discovery year:	1872

Production

Operation type:	Surface-Underground
Deposit type:	sheeted fissure vein zones
Production size:	Large
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1872
Last production ended:	1940

Geology

Host rock:	Wheeler Limestone (Combined Metals Member)
Host type:	Quartzite,Shale,Limestone
Associated type:	Porphyry,Quartz Monzonite,Granodiorite
Structure:	The mine area rocks are cut by many vertical to steeply dipping N- to NE-trending faults with little displacement.
Alteration processes:	Clay seams present in some ore.

References

DEP	10310455
Reference	{Deposit:: Weeks, F.B., 1908 Geology and Mineral Resources of the Osceola Mining District, White Pine Co., Nevada, U.S.G.S Bull 340}{Deposit:: Mining Record, 1926 Clipping Mentions Crescent Mine.}{Deposit:: USBM, 1983, MILS Data}{Deposit:: Terradata, 1980, A Mineral Inventory of the Schell Resource Area, Ely District, Nevada; Prepared For BLM.}{Deposit:: Lemmon, D.M., Unpublished Data.}{Deposit:: Lemmon, D.M., And Tweto, O.L., 1962, Tungsten in the U.S., USGS Map, MR-25.}{Deposit:: Hose, R.K., Blake, M.C., Jr., and Smith, R.M., 1976, NBMG Bull 85, p. 60-62.}{Deposit:: Stager, H. K., and Tingley, J.V., 1988, NBMG Bull.105,Tungsten Deposits of Nevada.}{Deposit:: Parker, M.B., 1930, The Dirty Shirt group of scheelite mining claims: NBMG district file 335, item #1.}{Deposit:: USBM,1963, Unpublished Data, NBMG File 335, Item 13.}{Deposit:: Weed, W.H.,Ed., 1922, The Mines Handbook, Vol. XV, p. 1303-1304.}{Deposit:: McClure, E.R., 1934, Letter and report on Hampton & Skyline mining claims, Osceola, Nev.; NBMG district file 335, item 2.}{Deposit:: Vanderburg, W.O., 1936, NBMG Bull 27, p. 167-173}{Deposit:: USBM, 1983, Open File Report MLA 56-83.}{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.}
Reporter	LaPointe, D. D. , Schruben, Paul G.