The Silicon Mine is a silica mine located in Nye county, Nevada at an elevation of 4,459 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 4,459 Feet (1,359 Meters)
Commodity: Silica
Lat, Long: 36.95944, -116.64611
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Silicon Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Silicon Mine
Secondary: Silica Mine
Secondary: Monarch Group
Commodity
Primary: Silica
Location
State: Nevada
County: Nye
District: Fluorine 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: Surface
Ownership
Owner Name: Hinds, Louis
Home Office: Beatty
Years: 1951 -
Owner Name: J. Irving Crowell Of Beatty
Years: 1929 -
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Sedimentary
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: Bare Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Thoroughly Silicified Rhyolitic Tuff.
Rocks
Name: Tuff
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: THE SILICA RUNS 99.7% SIO2.
Materials
Ore: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Workings): MINED BY AN OPEN CUT.
References
Reference (Deposit): KRAL, V.E., 1951, MINERAL RESOURCES OF NYE CO.: NBMG BULL. 50, P. 68
Reference (Deposit): CORNWALL, H.R. AND KLEINHAMPL, FJ, 1961, GEOL. OF THE BARE MOUNTAIN QUAD; USGS MAP GQ-157.
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.
