The Georgey Mine is a gold mine located in Nye county, Nevada at an elevation of 6,480 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 6,480 Feet (1,975 Meters)
Commodity: Gold
Lat, Long: 38.5389, -116.99999
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Georgey Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Georgey Mine
Secondary: Georgey No. 1
Secondary: Georgey No. 5
Secondary: Georgey No. 2
Secondary: Georgey Placer Mine
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
Type: Patented
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Lang Electric
Home Office: Nevada
Info Year: 1981
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Unknown
Operation Type: Surface
Mining Method: 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
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Not available
Comments
Comment (Deposit): THE EDITH AND FOOLEM CLAIMS WERE PRE-1924 PLACER CLAIMS ADJACENT AND SOUTH OF GEORGEY CLAIMS, ON MANHATTAN GULCH PLACERS. U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY LUMPS ALL OF THESE CLAIMS TOGETHER. IN 1981 MAMMOTH RESOURCES, VANCOUVER, B.C., EXAMINED GEORGEY NOS. 1 AND 2 PATENTED CLAIMS THAT COVER PART OF THE MANHATTAN GULCH PLACER. MR. OWEN MECHER WAS OWNER, AND IT WAS LEASED TO JACK MANHIRE AND HARRY LANG (LANG ELECTRIC). A 2 MAN, 20 CUBIC YARD PER DAY WASHING OPERATION WAS CONDUCTED WITH WATER FROM NEARBY SPRINGS AND POND. SAMPLING YIELDED FROM 0.02 TO 0.054 OUNCE PER CUBIC YARD. ACCORDING TO ASSESSORS RECORDS IN 1988 THIS PATENTED PROPERTY IS OWNED BY GOLD SEEKER RESOURCES, LTD, VANCOUVER, B.C. THIS AREA WAS BEING REWORKED IN 1993, BY LEASORS, FROM BOB BOTTOM, TONOPAH, NV.
References
Reference (Deposit): RANGE, NEVADA, ADMINISTERED AS TOIYABE NATIONAL FOREST.
Reference (Deposit): AREAS OF DEVELOPMENT INTEREST IN THAT PART OF THE TOQUIMA
Reference (Deposit): (FERGUSON).
Reference (Deposit): U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 723, 1924, PLATE 18
Reference (Deposit): INDUSTRY 1981: SPECIAL PUBLICATION MI-1981, 1982, 44 PP.
Reference (Deposit): NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES & GEOLOGY. THE NEVADA MINERAL
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.
