The Good Hope Mine is a gold mine located in Mineral county, Nevada.
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Good Hope Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Good Hope Mine
Secondary: NBMG # 3629
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Tertiary: Antimony
Tertiary: Arsenic
Location
State: Nevada
County: Mineral
District: Pamlico
Land Status
Land ownership: BLM Administrative Area
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
Type: Underground
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Vein
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
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: Basin And Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: LENSES
Structure
Type: L
Description: Northerly Trending Faults
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Porphyry Intrusive
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Ore: Galena
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Location): NORTH SIDE NEVERSWEAT CANYON (FAIR CONDITION OF THE ROAD)
Comment (Production): $150,000 IN AU
Comment (Development): WORKED DURING THE 1870'S TO 1880'S. ; ECON.COM: AS OF 1923 $150,000 REPORTED IN GOLD PRODUCTION.
Comment (Workings): AN ADIT ABOUT 500 FEET LONG TRENDS N-NE FROM THE NORTH SIDE OF NEVERSWEAT CANYON. VEIN EXPLORED AND WORKED FOR DISTANCE OF ABOUT 120 FEET ALONG STRIKE.
Comment (Geology): VEIN IS OFFSET ON EACH END BY NORTHERLY TRENDING FAULTS. FAULTED EXTENSIONS OF VEIN PROBABLY COULD BE FOUND TO NE AND SW OF THE STOPED AREA.
Comment (Deposit): THE ADIT CROSSCUTS A VEIN THAT IS ITSELF OFFSET ON EACH END BY NORTHERLY-TRENDING FAULTS. THIS ACCOUNTS FOR THE LIMITED EXPLORATION IN EITHER DIRECTION (120 FEET). ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
References
Reference (Deposit): ARCHBOLD AND PAUL, 1970, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE PAMLICO MINING DISTRICT, MINERAL CO., NEV.; NBMG BULL. 74
Reference (Deposit): LINCOLN, 1923, MINING DISTRICTS AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF NEVADA; NEVADA NEWSLETTER PUBL. CO.
Reference (Deposit): TELLURIDE CLAIMS, HAWTHORNE MINING DISTRICT, MINERAL COUNTY, QUADE SITE VISIT 5-3-89, NBMG UNPUBLISHED DISTRICT MINING FILES (TINGLEY FILES).
Reference (Production): LINCOLN, 1923
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.
