The Paymaster is a gold and silver mine located in Washoe county, Nevada.
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Mine Info
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Paymaster MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Paymaster
Secondary: Fravel-Paymaster
Secondary: Poe Consolidated
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Primary: Silver
Secondary: Copper
Tertiary: Lead
Tertiary: Zinc
Location
State: Nevada
County: Washoe
District: Peavine 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
Deposit Type: Stockwork
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Pacific Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Cascade-Sierra Mountains
Physiographic Section: Sierra Nevada
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Epithermal quartz-alunite Au
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Propylization
Rocks
Name: Quartz Monzonite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Cretaceous
Name: Quartz Monzonite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Galena
Ore: Sphalerite
Ore: Enargite
Ore: Argentite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Pyrite
Gangue: Calcite
Comments
Comment (Workings): PAYMASTER SHAFT, 400 FT DEEP, HAS 2000 FT OF LATERAL WORKINGS (OVERTON, P 76). ECONOMIC MINERALIZATION OCCURS IN QUARTZ CALCITE STRINGERS OR VEINLETS, THESE VEINLETS ARE CONCENTRATED IN LODES OR STOCKWORK-LIKE BODIES OF UNKNOWN DIMENSIONS WHICH, IN GENERAL, PARALLEL THE FOLIATION IN THE METAMORPHIC ROCKS (N30 DEG-70 DEG E). THE WALL ROCKS ARE BLEACHED IN THE ZONE OF WEATHERING AND GRADE DOWNWARD INTO GREENISH PROPYLITIZED ROCKS CONTAINING ABUNDANT PYRITE (BONHAM, P 78)
References
Reference (Deposit): BONHAM, HF, GEOL & MIN DEP, WASHOE-STOREY CO, NEV, NBMG BULL 70, 1969
Reference (Deposit): OVERTON, TD, MIN RES DOUGLAS, ORMSBY, WASHOE CO, NEV, NBMG BULL 46, 1947
Reference (Deposit): HILL, JM, USGS BULL 594, 1915.
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.
