The Magnolia Vein is a silver, gold, and lead mine located in Nye county, Nevada at an elevation of 7,461 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 7,461 Feet (2,274 Meters)
Commodity: Silver, Gold, Lead
Lat, Long: 38.66944, -116.25806
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Magnolia Vein MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Magnolia Vein
Secondary: Keyser Mine
Secondary: Morey Mine
Secondary: Magnolia Mine
Secondary: Lower Magnolia Adit
Secondary: Upper Magnolia Adit
Secondary: Kaiser Mine
Commodity
Primary: Silver
Primary: Gold
Primary: Lead
Tertiary: Antimony
Tertiary: Tin
Tertiary: Arsenic
Tertiary: Zinc
Location
State: Nevada
County: Nye
District: Morey 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
Not available
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
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Great Basin
Physiographic Detail: Hot Creek Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Type: L
Description: An East-West Trending Shear Zone.
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Oxidation Of Sulfides; Mild Sericitization Of Wallrock, Propylitic Outward.
Rocks
Name: Tuff
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Pyrargyrite
Ore: Stephanite
Ore: Stibnite
Ore: Jamesonite
Ore: Cassiterite
Ore: Alabandite
Ore: Galena
Gangue: Pyrite
Gangue: Sericite
Gangue: Rhodochrosite
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Workings): WORKINGS CONSIST OF THE KEYSER TUNNEL, LOWER MAGNOLIA ADIT, UPPER MAGNOLIA ADIT.
Comment (Geology): THE VEIN IS EXTENSIVELY SEGMENTED BY MINOR NORTH TO NORTHWEST STRIKING NORMAL FAULTS. MT AIRY VEIN MAY BE A FAULTED SEGMENT OF THE MAGNOLIA VEIN. N TO NW-STRIKING NORMAL FAULTS SEGMENT VEINS WITH SOME RIGHT LATERAL DISPLACEMENT.
Comment (Location): UNSURVEYED TOWNSHIP AND RANGE
Comment (Production): $462,972 WAS PRODUCED BETWEEN 1865 TO 1940 IN SILVER, GOLD, AND LEAD. ABOUT 45 TONS WERE SHIPPED IN 1936 DURING THE VASSAR LEASE, CONTAINING A MINIMUM OF 0.115 OZ/TON AU AND 71.85 TO 84.8 OZ/TON AG (THIS CAME FROM BELOW THE KEYSER TUNNEL). IN 1950 A SUBLEVEL BETWEEN LOWER AND UPPER MAGNOLIA PRODUCED A RETURN OF 44300 LB (DRY WT) ASSAYING 0.02 OZ/TON AU AND 22.5 OZ/TON AG.
Comment (Deposit): ORE IS FRACTURE FILLINGS 1 IN TO SEVERAL FT WIDE. HIGH-GRADE ORES OCCUR IN VERTICAL SHOOTS
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): WILLIAMS, S A., 1968, COMPLEX SILVER ORES FROM MOREY, NEVADA: THE CANADIAN MINERALOGIST, VOL.9, PT 4,P.478-484.
Reference (Deposit): LAWRENCE, 1963, NBMG BULL 61, P.132.
Reference (Deposit): KRAL, V.E., 1951, NBMG BULL 50.
Reference (Deposit): LENZER, R.C., 1972, GEOLOGY AND ALTERATION OF THE MOREY DISTRICT, NYE COUNTY, NV: UNIV WISCONSIN PH.D. THESIS.
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.
