The Grand Central Mine is a silver and gold mine located in Churchill county, Nevada.
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Mine Info
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Grand Central Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Grand Central Mine
Commodity
Primary: Silver
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Nevada
County: Churchill
District: Fairview District
Land Status
Land ownership: Federal
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
Deposit Type: Vein
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Epithermal vein, Comstock
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Rhyolite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Stephanite
Ore: Argentite
Comments
Comment (Workings): COUNTRY ROCK IS A RHYOLITIC FLOW BRECCIA CONTAINING DISSEMINATED PYRITE. THE PRINCIPAL SURFACE SHOWING IS A LEDGE OF SILICIFIED RHYOLITIC BRECCIA AND QUARTZ 100 FEET LONG BY 40 FEET WIDE, STANDING 5 FEET ABOVE THE SURFACE. A STRIP 4 FEET WIDE CONTAINS STREAKS AND DISSEMINATIONS OF DARK SILVER-SULFIDE ORE MINERALS, SUCH AS ARGENTITE AND STEPHANITE. DEVELOPMENT IN 1916 WAS A 50-FOOT SHAFT AND A 40-FOOT CROSSCUT TUNNEL. THE DEPOSIT DOES NOT SEEM TO HAVE CONTINUITY, EITHER IN HORIZONTAL EXTENT OR IN DEPTH (SCHRADER, P. 108)
References
Reference (Deposit): SCHRADER, F C, UNPUBLISHED REPORT ON THE CARSON SINK AREA, NEVADA, 1947: NBMG FILE
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.
