The Keystone Mine is a gold mine located in Nye county, Nevada at an elevation of 7,700 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 7,700 Feet (2,347 Meters)
Commodity: Gold
Lat, Long: 38.51056, -117.05722
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Keystone Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Keystone Mine
Secondary: Wall Mine
Secondary: Summit Mine
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Tertiary: Fluorine-Fluorite
Tertiary: Silver
Location
State: Nevada
County: Nye
District: Manhattan District
Land Status
Land ownership: National Forest
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
Owner Name: Nelson, Jim
Years: 1950 -
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Vein
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Great Basin
Physiographic Detail: Toquima Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Epithermal vein, Comstock
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Rhyolite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Name: Rhyolite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Cerargyrite
Ore: Fluorite
Ore: Gold
Gangue: Halloysite
Gangue: Iron
Comments
Comment (Deposit): THE BRECCIA IS COMPOSED MOSTLY OF ANGULAR TO SUBROUNDED SILTSTONE FRAGMENTS 0.25-8 INCHES ACROSS.
Comment (Commodity): FLUORITE IS VERY-LIGHT-GRAY TO VERY-LIGHT-GREEN CRYSTALS.
Comment (Location): NE 1/4 NE 1/4 OF SECT. 32.
Comment (Workings): WORKINGS CONSIST OF TWO SHAFTS, 60 AND 45 FT, CONNECTED BY 75 FT OF DRIFTS.
Comment (Geology): THE SCHIST IS GRAYISH-ORANGE AND THE SILTSTONE IS MEDIUM-DARK-GRAY.
References
Reference (Deposit): PAPKE, K.G., 1979, FLUORSPAR IN NEVADA: NEV. BUR. OF MINES & GEOL., BULL. 93, P. 39 - 40
Reference (Deposit): KRAL, V.E., 1951, MINERAL RESOURCES OF NYE CO.: NEV. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOL., BULL. 50, P. 126
Reference (Deposit): FERGUSON, H.G., 1924, GEOL. AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE MANHATTAN DISTRICT: USGS BULL. 723, P. 137 - 138.
Reference (Production): PAPKE, 1979, P. 39
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.
