The Groom is a lead mine located in Lincoln county, Nevada at an elevation of 5,640 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 5,640 Feet (1,719 Meters)
Commodity: Lead
Lat, Long: 37.3461, -115.76750
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Groom MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Groom
Secondary: Groom Mine
Commodity
Primary: Lead
Tertiary: Zinc
Tertiary: Silver
Tertiary: Gold
Tertiary: Copper
Location
State: Nevada
County: Lincoln
District: Groom 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
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Vincent D. Miller, Inc.
Home Office: Washington
Info Year: 1969
Owner Name: Dan Sheahan
Home Office: Nevada
Info Year: 1956
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Underground
Mining Method: Unknown
Year First Production: 1915
Discovery Year: 1864
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: M
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Great Basin
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Unknown: Chalcopyrite
Unknown: Sphalerite
Unknown: Galena
Unknown: Cerussite
Unknown: Anglesite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): THE LENGTH AND WIDTH OF THE ORE BODY GIVEN IS A MAXIMUM, NOT AN AVERAGE.
Comment (Reserve-Resource): ZINC IS PRESENT IN VARYING AMOUNTS FROM A TRACE TO 22 PCT. THE FIGURE FOR ZINC GIVEN ON QUANTITY SHEET WOULD SEEM TO BE WRONG. FROM ORE RESERVES AND POTENTIAL RESOURCES BY ORE TYPE AND DEPOSIT.
References
Reference (Deposit): NV. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. BULLETIN 73, 1970, P. 149.
Reference (Deposit): NV. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. BULLETIN 42, 1945, P. 35-45.
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.
