The War Eagle Mine is a gold mine located in Nye county, Nevada at an elevation of 8,819 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 8,819 Feet (2,688 Meters)
Commodity: Gold
Lat, Long: 38.65917, -116.94167
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War Eagle Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: War Eagle Mine
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Tertiary: Lead
Tertiary: Copper
Tertiary: Silver
Location
State: Nevada
County: Nye
District: Barcelona District
Land Status
Land ownership: National Forest
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
Owner Name: Flower, W. A.
Home Office: Tonopah
Years: 1951 -
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Great Basin
Physiographic Detail: Toquima Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Polymetallic veins
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Type: L
Description: The Contact Between Mayflower Schist And Carrara Formation Is A Fault And In Some Cases A Thrust Fault. A Major Thrust North Of The Adit Places Mayflower And Carrara Over Zabriskie Quartzite.
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Quartz Monzonite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Late Cretaceous
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Gold
Ore: Galena
Comments
Comment (Workings): WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 500 FT CROSSCUT ADIT (CAVED), A 75 FT ADIT AND SEVERAL SHALLOW SHAFTS.
References
Reference (Deposit): KLEINHAMPL, F.J. AND ZIONY, J.I., GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF NORTHERN NYE CO.: NEV. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, BULLETIN, IN PRESS.
Reference (Deposit): ERVINE, W.B., 1972, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL ZONING OF THE SPANISH BELT MINING DISTRICT, NYE COUNTY, NEVADA: STANFORD UNIV. PH.D. THESIS, P.123.
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.
