The Golden King Mine is a mine located in Nye county, Nevada at an elevation of 7,100 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 7,100 Feet (2,164 Meters)
Commodity:
Lat, Long: 38.64306, -117.54722
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Golden King Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Golden King Mine
Secondary: Gold King Group
Commodity
Tertiary: Gold
Tertiary: Arsenic
Tertiary: Beryllium
Location
State: Nevada
County: Nye
District: Cloverdale 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: Silver, W. A.
Home Office: Tonopah
Years: 1948 -
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1948
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Epithermal vein, Comstock
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Type: R
Description: Peavine Caldera Peripheral Zone
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Bleaching Of Tuff
Rocks
Name: Welded Tuff
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: SELECTED GRAB SAMPLE CONTAIN 0.9 PPM GOLD, 300 PPM ARSENIC, 1.5 PPM BERYLLIUM.
Materials
Not available
Comments
Comment (Location): UNSURVEYED TOWNSHIP & RANGE
Comment (Workings): WORKINGS CONSIST OF A SHAFT INCLINED AT 53 DEGREES.
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
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.
