The Long Hike is a gold mine located in Elko county, Nevada at an elevation of 6,801 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 6,801 Feet (2,073 Meters)
Commodity: Gold
Lat, Long: 41.87306, -115.41722
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Long Hike MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Long Hike
Secondary: Elkoro Mines Co.
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Secondary: Silver
Tertiary: Selenium
Location
State: Nevada
County: Elko
District: Jarbidge 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
Type: Underground
Ownership
Owner Name: Elkoro Mines Co. (1930'S)
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Vein
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1918
Discovery Year: 1910
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Columbia Plateau
Physiographic Section: Payette Section
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Epithermal vein, Comstock
Orebody
Form: TABULAR
Structure
Type: R
Description: Crater Range
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Silicification
Rocks
Name: Rhyolite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Name: Rhyolite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Naumannite
Gangue: Fluorite
Gangue: Halloysite
Gangue: Sericite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): PART OF WEST VEIN SYSTEM. MINE HAS A HORIZONTAL DISTANCE OF 3800 FT. AND A VERTICAL DISTANCE OF 1700 FT. IN JUNE 1919 IT WAS THE LARGEST GOLD MINE IN NEVADA ENRICHMENT CAUSED BY CHLORIDE SOLUTIONS, FE SULPHIDES, MN COMPOUNDS, AND ALKALINE WATERS. AGENCY; DESCENDING METEORIC WATER-ALSO IN PART BY SOLUTION OF CALCITE AND SOLUTION AND REDEPOSITION OF THE GOLD. ORE CHUTES ARE DEVELOPED TO A DEPTH OF 800 FEET ORE CHUTES ARE 20 TO 150 FT. LONG, 4 TO 26 FT. WIDE, DEVELOPMENT IN 1920 CONSISTED OF 4 LONG TUNNELS AND A 400-FT. DEEP WINZE MILL CAPACITY WAS 125 T. PD. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Comment (Location): AT THE MOUTH OF BEAR CREEK
Comment (Production): FROM 1918 TO 1933, THE MILL TREATED 100 TONS ORE PER DAY, AVERAGING $10/TON.
Comment (Development): MILLCAPACITY (1920), 125 T.P.D. ELKORO MINES DEVELOPED THE PROPERTY AFTER ABOUT 1916, MILLOPERATED FROM 1918 TO 1933. IN JUNE, 191., THE MINE WAS NEVADA'S LARGEST GOLD PRODUCER.
Comment (Deposit): VEIN, FAULT ZONE
Comment (Geology): RHYOLITE IS HIGHLY OXIDEZED, WHIT FELDS PARS KAOLINIZED, SERICITIZED, AND LE VERRIERITIZED.
References
Reference (Deposit): SCHRADER, F.C. (1923) JARBIDGE MINING DISTRICT, NV., USGS BULL. 741
Reference (Deposit): GRANGER, M.B. (1957) GEOL & MINL. RES. OF ELKO CO., NV., NBM BULL 54.
Reference (Deposit): SCHRADER, F.C. (1912) A RECONNAISSANCE OF THE JARBIDGE, CONTACT, AND ELK MOUNTAIN MINING DISTRICTS, ELKO CO., NV., USGS BULL. 497
Reference (Production): GRANGER, M.B., (1957).
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.
