The Green Monster Mine is a zinc mine located in Clark county, Nevada at an elevation of 3,199 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 3,199 Feet (975 Meters)
Commodity: Zinc
Lat, Long: 35.88861, -115.64722
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Green Monster Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Green Monster Mine
Commodity
Primary: Zinc
Secondary: Copper
Secondary: Lead
Secondary: Silver
Secondary: Uranium
Location
State: Nevada
County: Clark
District: Goodsprings
Land Status
Land ownership: Private
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Type: Underground
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Polymetallic replacement
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Type: R
Description: Large Thrust Zone
Type: L
Description: Homoclinal Structure Of The Beds Part Of A Se Plunging Syncline, One Main Thrust Fault And Several Minor Ones
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Dolomite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Mississippian
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Calamine
Ore: Galena
Ore: Hydrozincite
Ore: Anglesite
Ore: Smithsonite
Ore: Aurichalcite
Gangue: Sphalerite
Comments
Comment (Location): ON THE NORTH BORDER OF MESQUITE VALLEY
Comment (Production): CRUDE ORE CONTAINED 15 - 25% COMBINED METALS, PB AVERAGING 1%. AT DEEPEST DEVELOPMENT PB WAS 10% OR MORE.
Comment (Workings): THERE ARE 3 SHOOTS, WHICH RANGE 5 - 15 FEET THICK
Comment (Geology): ORE FROM TABULAR BODIES ELONGATED IN THE BEDDING PLANE, PREDOMINANTLY MIXTURE OF HYDROZINCITE AND CALAMINE IN A GANGUE OF WHITE DOLOMITE AND OCHEROUS LIMONITE. SMITHONITE FORMS VEINLETS IN FRACTURES CROSSING THE ORE ZONES. CERUSSITE IS IN GRANULAR MASSES, GALENA IN LENSES AND KERNELS SURROUNDED BY THIN RINDS OF ANGLESITE. RADIOACTIVE MINERALS ARE DUMONTITE, KASOLITE, RUTHERFORDINE, CHRYSOCOLLA, AND LIMONITE INTERMIXED WITH THE OXIDIZED PB AND ZN MINERALS. THE URANUIM ORE GRADE IS VARIABABLE UP TO 9 % URANIUM AND DECREASES WITH DEPTH.
References
Reference (Deposit): HEWETT, 1931 , GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF GOODSPRINGS QUAD, USGS PROF. PAPER 162 .
Reference (Deposit): LONGWELL, ETAL, 1965
Reference (Deposit): ALBRITTON AND OTHERS, 1954 , GEOLOGIC CONTROLS OF PB AND ZN DEPOSITS IN GOODSPRINGS DISTRICT, USGS BULL. 1010 P. 85 - 89 .
Nevada Gold
Nevada has a total of 368 distinct gold districts. Of the of those, just 36 are major producers with production and/or reserves of over 1,000,000 ounces, 49 have production and/or reserves of over 100,000 ounces, with the rest having less than 100,000 ounces. Read more: Gold Districts of Nevada.
