The Crescent Mine is a gold mine located in White Pine county, Nevada.
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Mine Info
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Crescent Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Crescent Mine
Secondary: Part of Gold Exchange Group
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
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Vein
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Type: L
Description: Many Vertical To Steep 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
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Deposit): GOLD IS CONCENTRATED IN FISSURE VEINS OF VARYING WIDTH AND IS ALSO DISSEMINATED IN THE BEDS OF FINELY SHATTERED QUARTZITE.
References
Reference (Deposit): WEEKS, F.B. 1908, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE OSCEOLA DISTRICT, WHITE PINE CO. NEV, NEV. GEO. BULL. 340
Reference (Deposit): NBMG DISTRICT FILE 335; CLIPPING FROM THE MINING RECORD, 1926, MENTIONS THE CRESCENT MINE.
Reference (Deposit): USBM, 1983, MILS DATA.
Reference (Deposit): HOSE, R.K., BLAKE, M.C. JR., AND SMITH, R.M., 1976, NBMG BULL 85.
Reference (Deposit): TERRADATA, 1980, A MINERAL INVENTORY OF THE SCHELL RESOURCE AREA, ELY DISTRICT, NEVADA; PREPARED FOR BLM.
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.
