The Tiger Group is a gold mine located in Washoe county, Nevada at an elevation of 6,299 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 6,299 Feet (1,920 Meters)
Commodity: Gold
Lat, Long: 39.66944, -119.43139
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Mine Description
The Tiger group is located near the head of Tiger Canyon, approximately 1.25 miles north of Olinghouse (Hill, 1911, p. 105). The workings, consisting of a 600-foot tunnel and a shaft 150 feet deep with drifts at the 75-and 150-foot levels, explore a N. 30° E. trending mineralized fault zone. Vein quartz with pyrite and chalcopyrite occurs in the fault zone. The fault zone forms the contact between a granodiorite porphyry dike and andesite of the Chloropagus Formation.
Source: Geology and Mineral Deposits of Washoe and Storey Counties, Nevada. Bulletin 70, Nevada Bureau of Mines
Tiger Group MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Tiger Group
Secondary: Standard
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Secondary: Silver
Tertiary: Copper
Location
State: Nevada
County: Washoe
District: Olinghouse (White Horse) District
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
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Epithermal vein, Comstock
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Type: L
Description: Olinghouse Fault
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Propylitization
Rocks
Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Pyrite
Comments
Comment (Workings): QUARTZ VEINS CONTAINING PYRITE AND CHALCOPYRITE OCCURS IN FAULT ZONE BETWEEN GRANODIORITE PORPHYRY AND ANDESITE OF CHLOROPAQUS FORMATION (BOHNAN) THIS LOCATION IS WITHIN THE STANDARD LODE PATENTED CLAIM (M.S. 4325)
References
Reference (Deposit): BONHAM, H.F., GEOL & MIN DEP, WASHOE & STOREY CO, NEV. NBMG BULL 70, 1969
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.
