The Big Deal Claims 1-26 is a mine located in Mineral county, Nevada at an elevation of 6,001 feet.
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All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.
Mine Info
Elevation: 6,001 Feet (1,829 Meters)
Commodity:
Lat, Long: 38.42139, -118.38917
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Big Deal Claims 1-26 MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Big Deal Claims 1-26
Secondary: Maxine Claims? Nbmg # 3619
Commodity
Tertiary: Copper
Location
State: Nevada
County: Mineral
District: Pamlico
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Delbert Shultz
Home Office: P.O. Box 407, Hawthorne,Nv.
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Copper Oxides And Sulfides
Rocks
Name: Metavolcanic Rock
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Cretaceous
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Not available
Comments
Comment (Location): 1.5 MI. EAST OF LOMAN MINE
Comment (Development): MINE IS YET ACTIVE ; ECON.COM: SOME BUT EXACT AMOUNT IS UNKNOWN
Comment (Workings): A 35 FT. SHAFT AND A 170 FT. CROSSCUT UNDER THE SHAFT SHALLOW SHAFTS, ADITS, AND PROSPECTS, CABIN, STOCKPILED ORE, AND A SMALL MILL.
Comment (Geology): A SERIES OF SHALLOW WORKINGS EXPLORE PARALLEL VEINS THAT TREND EAST-WEST IN INTERCALCATED VOLCANICS AND SEDIMENTARY ROCKS. SOME OF THE VEINS ARE MASSIVE QUARTZ;OTHERS ARE STRONGLY BRECCIATED . ; GEOL.DESC: TWO VEINS, UP TO 6 FT. THICK; WHERE VEINS ARE THICKEST THEY CONTAIN BRECCIA OF COUNTRY ROCK
Comment (Deposit): THE OWNER HAS BEEN MINING THESE VEINS AND STOCKPILING THE ORE NEAR HIS CABIN AND MILL.
References
Reference (Deposit): ROSS, N. L., 1961 , GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF MINERAL CO., NEV. NEV. BUREAU OF MINES, BULL. 58
Reference (Deposit): TELLURIDE CLAIMS, PAMLICO MINING DSISTRICT, MINERAL COUNTY,QUADE SITE VISIT 5-2-89 , NBMG UNPUBLISHED MINING DISTRICT FILES (TINGLEY FILES ).
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.
