The Gillis Prospect is a mine located in Mineral county, Nevada at an elevation of 6,601 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: 6,601 Feet (2,012 Meters)
Commodity:
Lat, Long: 38.67667, -118.28111
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Gillis Prospect MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Gillis Prospect
Secondary: Gillis Iron No. 1 and 2
Commodity
Tertiary: Iron
Location
State: Nevada
County: Mineral
District: Fitting
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: R. L. Crews
Home Office: Hawthorne, Nv.
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Deposit Type: Contact Metasomatic
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Limestone
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Triassic
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Limonite
Ore: Magnetite
Ore: Hematite
Gangue: Chalcedony
Comments
Comment (Commodity): CHIP OF HIGH GRADE CONTAINED 51.7 % FE MOST MATEIAL TOO LOW-GRADE TO BE ORE
Comment (Location): ESTIMATE LOCATION
Comment (Deposit): FERRUGINOUS AREA 300 FT IN DIAMETER
Comment (Workings): BULLDOZER SCRAPINGS AND SCATTERED PITS
References
Reference (Deposit): REEVES, SHAWE, KRAL, 1958 , IRON DEPOSITS OF NEVADA, PART B, NEV. BUREAU OF MINES, BULL. 53
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.
