Reliance Mine

The Reliance Mine is a gold mine located in Nye county, Nevada at an elevation of 7,041 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Reliance Mine
Secondary: Reliance
Secondary: Copenhagen

Commodity

Primary: Gold

Location

State: Nevada
County: Nye

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

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Workings

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Ownership

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Production

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Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Underground
Mining Method: Unknown
Year First Production: 1906
Discovery Year: 1905
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N

Physiography

General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Great Basin

Mineral Deposit Model

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Orebody

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Structure

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Alterations

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Rocks

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Analytical Data

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Materials

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Comments

Comment (Deposit): SHAFT OBLITERATED BY LARGE SCALE PLACER DREDGING AND THE WORKINGS FLOODED. THE RELIANCE MINE IS ON THE SURVEYED BUT NOT PATENTED COPENHAGEN CLAIM WHICH IS CONTIGUOUS AND ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE ORPHANT PATENTED CLAIM. BOTH OF THESE CLAIMS WERE OPERATED BY THE RELIANCE MINING COMPANY. THE RELIANCE SHAFT IS 464 FT. DEEP WITH 4,000 FT WORKINGS. IN 1946 THE SHAFT BUILDINGS WERE REMOVED, THE AREA PREPARED FOR AND DREDGED THE OVERLYING GRAVELS BY THE MANHATTAN GOLD DREDING COMPANY.

References

Reference (Deposit): NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES & GEOLOGY BULLETIN 50, 1951, P. 119.

Reference (Deposit): U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEOLOGY MAP, GQ-40, 1954, 1/125,000.

Reference (Deposit): AREAS OF DEVELOPMENT INTEREST IN THAT PART OF THE TOQUIMA

Reference (Deposit): RANGE, NEVADA, ADMINISTERED AS TOIYABE NATIONAL FOREST.

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.