The Montana Claim is a mercury mine located in Esmeralda county, Nevada at an elevation of 7,051 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
Elevation: 7,051 Feet (2,149 Meters)
Commodity: Mercury
Lat, Long: 37.84917, -118.22972
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Montana Claim MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Montana Claim
Commodity
Primary: Mercury
Location
State: Nevada
County: Esmeralda
District: Fish Lake Valley (White Mountain) 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
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Ownership
Not available
Production
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Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Deposit Type: Vein
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1931
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
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Mineral Deposit Model
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Orebody
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Structure
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Alterations
Not available
Rocks
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Analytical Data
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Materials
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Limonite
Comments
Comment (Workings): CUT, ADIT
Comment (Deposit): N-S VERTICAL STRUCTURE CUTS SILICIFIED BRECCIATED QUARTZITE. VEIN-GOSSAN HAS LENSES OF WHITE QUARTZ WITH STREAKS OF DARK QUARTZ CONTAINING DISSEMINATED SULFIDES. FRACTURED WALLROCK HAS YELLOW-BROWN LIMONITE ON HAIRLINE FRACTURE SURFACES; STREAKS OF CHALCEDONIC QUARTZ LACE WALLROCK IN SOME AREAS.
Comment (Location): NORTH OF MOUTH OF MIDDLE FORK OF CHIATOVICH CREEK ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)
Comment (Development): NO ACTIVITY AT TIME OF EXAMINATION IN AUG 1982. CLAIM NOTICE WITH "MONTANA CLAIM" DATED 1931
References
Reference (Deposit): TINGLEY, J.V., 1982, FIELD EXAMINATION OF 15 AUGUST 1982
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.
