The Chalk Mountain Silver-Lead Mine is a lead and silver mine located in Churchill county, Nevada.
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Mine Info
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Chalk Mountain Silver-Lead Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Chalk Mountain Silver-Lead Mine
Commodity
Primary: Lead
Primary: Silver
Secondary: Arsenic
Secondary: Gold
Secondary: Zinc
Tertiary: Molybdenum
Tertiary: Iron
Location
State: Nevada
County: Churchill
District: Chalk Mountain
Land Status
Land ownership: BLM Administrative Area
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
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: M
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Polymetallic replacement
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Type: L
Description: Regional Eastward Dips
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Oxidation
Rocks
Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Plumbojarosite
Ore: Wulfenite
Ore: Copper
Ore: Vanadinite
Ore: Cerargyrite
Ore: Anglesite
Gangue: Calcite
Comments
Comment (Geology): DEPOSITS OCCUR AS VEINS AND REPLACEMENT DEPOSITS ALONG FRACTURES & BEDDING PLANES IN LIMESTONE. DEPOSITS ARE MOSTLY OXIDIZED AND GENERALLY OCCUR AS IRREGULAR MASSES OF POROUS IRON-STAINED MATERIAL. THE ORES WERE DEPOSITED BY HOT SOLUTIONS FROM THE GRANODIORITE MAGMA, PROBABLY AT ABOUT 1,000 FEET BELOW THE SURFACE. THEY HAVE BEEN ENRICHED THROUGH LEADING AND CONCENTRATION BY DESCENDING SURFACE WATERS (SCHRADER, P. 117)
References
Reference (Deposit): SCHRADER, F C, UNPUBLISHED REPORT ON THE CARSON SINK AREA, NEVADA, 1947, NBMG FILES
Reference (Deposit): WILLDEN, RONALD, AND SPEED, R C, 1974, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF CHURCHILL COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL 83.
Reference (Deposit): VANDERBURG, 1940, MINING DISTRICTS IN CHURCHILL CO, US BUR MINES; REPT INC, 7093
Reference (Deposit): SCHILLING, 1962 B, MOLYBDENUM IN NEVADA; NEV BUR MINES REPORT 2
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.
