Wildhorse Group

The Wildhorse Group is a gold and silver mine located in Pershing county, Nevada.

About the MRDS Data:

All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.

Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Wildhorse Group

Commodity

Primary: Gold
Primary: Silver

Location

State: Nevada
County: Pershing
District: Seven Troughs District

Land Status

Land ownership: BLM Administrative Area
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: Underground

Ownership

Owner Name: Clayton Mendham
Years: 1973 -

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Vein
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1959
Discovery Year: 1908
Discovery Method: 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: Basin And Mountains

Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Epithermal vein, Comstock

Orebody

Form: TABULAR

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Rhyolite Is Kaolinized

Rocks

Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Pliocene

Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Pliocene

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Gangue: Quartz

Comments

Comment (Location): IN WILDHORSE CANYON; UTM APPROXIMATE

Comment (Production): ABOUT $80,000 WORTH OF ORE AVG. 170 OZ./TON AU AND 760 OZ AG/TON.

Comment (Development): 5 LODE CLAIMS ACTIVELY MINED FROM 1959 TO AT LEAST 1973 ON A SMALL SCALE

Comment (Geology): MAIN VEIN MATERIAL IS HIGHLY METAMORPHOSED RHYOLITE-QUARTZ BRECCIA

Comment (Deposit): MINING ON THE PROPERTY WAS PRINCIPALLY ALONG TWO VEINS. THE VEINS WERE FOUND TO CONVERGE; A CROSS CUT REVEALED SEVEN VEINS CONVERGING ON A SINGLE INTERSECTION POINT, NEAR THE ORIGINAL SHAFT. MINE WAS NEVER WORKED BELOW 75 FEET DUE TO THE WATER LEVEL. WILDHORSE GROUP CONSISTS OF 5 LODE MINING CLAIMS THAT HAVE BEEN ACTIVELY MINED FOR 14 YEARS ON A SMALL SCALE (1959-1973) BY CLAYTON MENDHAM. EARLY PROSPECTING OCCURRED IN WILD HORSE CANYON IN 1908 BUT NO SHIPMENTS MADE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

References

Reference (Deposit): RANSOME, 1909, MINING DISTRICTS IN HUMBOLDT COUNTY, NEVADA; USGS BULL. 414

Reference (Deposit): LITCHFIELD, D.W., 1973, THE WILDHORSE PROPERTY, SEVEN TROUGHS MINING DISTRICT, PERSHING CO., NEVADA: WRITTEN REPORT OCTOBER 31, 1973; UNPUBLISHED

Reference (Production): LITCHFIELD, D.W., 1973

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.