The Eldorado Rand Group is a gold mine located in Clark county, Nevada at an elevation of 3,599 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: 3,599 Feet (1,097 Meters)
Commodity: Gold
Lat, Long: 35.70361, -114.86111
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Eldorado Rand Group MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Eldorado Rand Group
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Secondary: Silver
Location
State: Nevada
County: Clark
District: Eldorado
Land Status
Land ownership: Private
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
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Sonoran Desert
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Quartz Monzonite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Neoproterozoic
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Galena
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Pyrite
Ore: Sphalerite
Comments
Comment (Production): ORE FROM TECHATTICUP VALUED AT $40/TON ( 1907 ), OTHERS WERE LESS THAN $20/TON. TOTAL PRODUCTION FROM THE GROUP ESTIMATED AT $1,000,000.
Comment (Workings): TECHATTICUP MINE IS REACHED BY AN ADIT 180 FEET LONG AND 250 FT. BELOW THE CROPPINGS OF THE LODE, WITH A WINZE SUNK TO 300 FT.
Comment (Geology): ORE IN MINERALIZED FISSURE ZONES IN QUARTZ MONZONITE, SOME TERMED BLANKETS, OTHERS ARE VERTICLE LODES. AT QUAKER CITY, THERE ARE 2 PARALLEL, NEARLY HORIZONTAL VEINS ABOUT 100 FEET APART. ORE THERE IS SHATTERED QTZ. MONZONITE CEMENTED AND PARTLY REPLACED BY CALCITE AND QUARTZ. ORIGINALLY DEPOSIT CONTAINED DISSEMINATED PYRITE WHICH WAS OXIDIZED AND MATERIAL IS NOW FREE-MILLING GOLD ORE. AT MOCKING BIRD MINE, THE VEIN IS 6 - 7 FEET WIDE, QTZ. IS MORE ABUNDANT THAN AT QUAKER CITY. AT RAND CLAIM VEIN IS LITTLE BUNCHES AND VEINLETS OF QTZ., CALCITE & PYRITE IN A SOMEWHAT PYRITIZED QTZ. MONZONITE. AT HONEST MINER CLAIM ARE 2 NEARLY PARALLEL NE - SW VEINS 60 FT. APART.
Comment (Deposit): GROUP INCLUDES QUAKER CITY, MOCKING BIRD, HONEST MINER, RAND, TECHATTICUP ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
References
Reference (Deposit): RANSOME, F. L., 1907 , PRELIMINARY ACCOUNT OF GOLDFIELD, BULLFROG AND OTHER MINING DISTRICTS IN SOUTHERN NEVADA, USGS BULL. 303 , P. 76 - 79 .
Reference (Deposit): LONGWELL, C. R., PAMPEYAN, E. H., BOWYER, B., ROBERTS, R. J., 1965 , GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF CLARK CO., NEV. BUREAU OF MINES BULL. 62 , P. 181 .
Reference (Deposit): VANDERBURG, W. O., 1937 , RECONNAISANCE OF MINING DISTRICTS IN CLARK CO., US BUREAU OF MINES INF. CIRC. 6964 , P. 31 - 32 .
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.
