The Gold Exchange Group is a gold mine located in White Pine county, Nevada.
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Mine Info
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Gold Exchange Group MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Gold Exchange Group
Secondary: Butterfield
Secondary: Star
Secondary: Crescent
Secondary: Time Check
Secondary: Cumberland
Secondary: Exchange
Secondary: Woodman
Secondary: Golden Eagle
Secondary: And January.
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Nevada
County: White Pine
District: Osceola
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: Unknown
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1872
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Gneiss-hosted kyanite Au
Orebody
Form: TABULAR
Structure
Type: L
Description: Many Vertical To Steeply Dipping Fault Planes With Little Displacement.
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Quartzite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Cambrian
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Gangue: Fluorite
Comments
Comment (Development): FIRST ORE WAS MILLED IN ARRASTRAS. A SMALL CYANIDE PLANT WAS BUILT IN THE EARLY 1900'S. A MILL RUN OF SEVERAL HUNDRED TONS OF ORE WAS MADE FROM THE CUMBERLAND MINE BEFORE 1908.
Comment (Deposit): ADJACENT PARALLEL FISSURES FORM A SHEETED ZONE. IN THE CUMBERLAND LODE, VEIN MATERIAL CONTAINS MANY VUGS LINED WITH GOLD, FLUORITE, AND OTHER MINERALS. 2 MAIN PARALLEL LODES SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET APART. GOLD IS CONCENTRATED IN FISSURE ZONES OF VARYING WIDTH,AND IS ALSO DISSEMINATED IN THE BEDS OF FINELY SHATTERED QUARTZITE.
Comment (Workings): THESE CLAIMS HAVE THE MOST EXTENSIVE UNDERGROUND WORKINGS OF THE DISTRICT: 2 SHAFTS, SEVERAL STOPES AND WINZES.
Comment (Deposit): COMPRISES 11 LODE CLAIMS OF WHICH 3 ARE FRACTIONAL ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
References
Reference (Deposit): TERRADATA, 1980, A MINERAL INVENTORY OF THE SCHELL RESOURCE AREA, ELY DISTRICT, NEVADA; PREPARED FOR BLM.
Reference (Deposit): USBM, 1983, MILS DATA
Reference (Deposit): MINING RECORD, 1926 CLIPPING MENTIONS CRESCENT MINE.
Reference (Deposit): WEEKS, F.B., 1908 GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE OSCEOLA MINING DISTRICT, WHITE PINE CO., NEV U.S. GEO BULL 340
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.
