Montana Claim

The Montana Claim is a mercury mine located in Esmeralda county, Nevada at an elevation of 7,051 feet.

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

Name: Montana Claim  

State:  Nevada

County:  Esmeralda

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

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Workings

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Ownership

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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

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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

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.