The King Claims is a gold mine located in Mineral county, Nevada.
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Mine Info
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King Claims MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: King Claims
Secondary: Donnelly Group
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Tertiary: Silver
Tertiary: Lead
Tertiary: Copper
Location
State: Nevada
County: Mineral
District: Regent District
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: Surface/Underground
Ownership
Owner Name: Mrs. Fred Donnelly,
Home Office: Hawthorne, Nevada
Years: 1961 -
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1926
Discovery Year: 1926
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
Model Name: Polymetallic veins
Orebody
Form: IRREGULAR
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Rhyolite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Triassic
Name: Rhyolite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Triassic
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Not available
Comments
Comment (Production): ONLY ONE CARLOAD OF SHIPPING ORE REPORTED, AVERAGING ABOUT $40/TON IN AU.
Comment (Development): SMALL STRINGER OF GOLD ORE WAS DISCOVERED IN AN OLD SHAFT BRINGING IN UP TO 100 MEN INTO THE AREA TO PROSPECT.
Comment (Deposit): MINERALIZED ZONE IS 60 TO 200 FEET WIDE, TRAVERSED WITH NUMEROUS SEAMS AND SMALL FISSURES FILLED WITH QUARTZ CARRYING GOLD, SILVER, LEAD, PYRITE, AND A LITTLE COPPER. MINERALIZATION APPEARS TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH A DIKE 40 TO 50 FEET WIDE.
Comment (Workings): DEVELOPMENT WORK CONSISTED OF A CROSSCUT TUNNEL 550 FEET LONG, A SHAFT 100 FEET DEEP, SEVERAL SHALLOWER SHAFTS, AND A NUMBER OF OPEN-CUTS.
References
Reference (Deposit): ROSS, D. C., 1961, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA; NBMG BULL. 58
Reference (Deposit): VANDERBURG, 1937, RECONNAISSANCE OF MINING DISTRICTS IN MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA; USBM IC 6941
Reference (Production): VANDERBURG, 1937, 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.
