Long Hike

The Long Hike is a gold mine located in Elko county, Nevada at an elevation of 6,801 feet.

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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

Name: Long Hike  

State:  Nevada

County:  Elko

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

Gold Districts of Nevada

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.