Virginia Louise

The Virginia Louise is a zinc mine located in Lincoln county, Nevada at an elevation of 5,840 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Virginia Louise
Secondary: Prince Mine
Secondary: Davidson See Comments

Commodity

Primary: Zinc
Secondary: Gold
Secondary: Lead
Secondary: Silver
Tertiary: Manganese
Tertiary: Iron

Location

State: Nevada
County: Lincoln
District: Pioche District

Land Status

Land ownership: Mixed
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: Located Claim
Type: Patented

Workings

Not available

Ownership

Owner Name: Prince Consolidated Mining Co.
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: Utah
Info Year: 1983

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Underground
Mining Method: Unknown
Year First Production: 1870
Discovery Year: 1869
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: Hematite
Unknown: Braunite
Unknown: Calcite
Unknown: Cerussite
Unknown: Goethite
Unknown: Hemimorphite
Unknown: Limonite
Unknown: Pyrolusite
Unknown: Quartz
Unknown: Anglesite

Comments

Comment (Reserve-Resource): NO PUBLISHED RESERVE-RESOURCE INFORMATION. HOWEVER, MUCH OXIDE ORE REPORTED AS REMAINING, NO ESTIMATE AVAILABLE.

Comment (Production): TOTAL HISTORICAL MINE PRODUCTION: 1112000 T ORE AT A GRADE OF 102.8 G/T AG, 1.03 G/T AU, 3% PB, 4% ZN AND 12% MN.

Comment (Reserve-Resource): MATRICES ONE, TWO, THREE, AND FOUR; REPRESENT THE TONNAGES AVAILABLE IN THE VARIOUS ORE TYPES; CLASSIFIED BY GIMMEL. THE IRON CONTENT IS ESTIMATED IN MATRICES ONE, TWO, AND FOUR. A CALCIUM ANALYSIS IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR MATRICES ONE AND TWO. MATRIX ONE REPRESENTS THE TYPE, TONNAGE, AND G OF ORE PROPOSED FOR MINING OPERATIONS. 1985 UPDATE. THERE HAS BEEN NO ACTIVITY AT THE MINE IN THE RECENT PAST. THE MINE HAS NOT PRODUCED SINCE 1949. GENERAL LOCATION: ABOUT 4 KM SW OF PIOCHE GENERAL SIZE OF ORE BODY: MEDIUM NO MILL

References

Reference (Deposit): OCT. 7-11, 1979), ED. BY G. W. NEWMAN AND H. D. GOODE.

Reference (Deposit): SYMPOSIUM AND GREAT BASIN FIELD CONFERENCE (LAS VEGAS, NV,

Reference (Deposit): GEOLOGISTS/UTAH GEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION BASIN AND RANGE

Reference (Deposit): PROCEEDINGS OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION OF

Reference (Deposit): UNUSUAL "MISSISSIPPI VALLEY" DEPOSITS. PAPER IN

Reference (Deposit): LEAD-ZINC-SILVER ORES OF THE PIOCHE DISTRICT, NEVADA -

Reference (Deposit): JAMES, L. P., AND L. H. KNIGHT. STRATABOUND

Reference (Deposit): AND GEOL. BULL. 73, 1970, TABLE 10, P. 130; PLATE 1.

Reference (Deposit): MINERAL DEPOSITS OF LINCOLN COUNTY, NEVADA. NV BUREAU OF MINES

Reference (Deposit): TSCHANZ, C.M., AND E.H. PAMPEYAN. GEOLOGY AND

Reference (Deposit): LINCOLN COUNTY, NEVADA. BUMINES IC 7586, 1950, 24 PP.

Reference (Deposit): CASELTON MINE, COMBINED METALS REDUCTION COMPANY, PIOCHE,

Reference (Deposit): HOLMES, G. H., JR. MINING AND MILLING METHODS AT THE

Reference (Deposit): (GRATON-SALES) ED., AIME, 1968, PP. 1128-1147.

Reference (Deposit): DEPOSITS. BUMINES RI 5446, 1959, 40 PP.

Reference (Deposit): TRENGOVE, R. R. RECONNAISSANCE OF NEVADA MANGANESE

Reference (Deposit): RI 4541, 1949, 6 PP.

Reference (Deposit): LEAD-ZINC DEPOSIT, LINCOLN COUNTY, NEVADA. BUMINES

Reference (Deposit): SCALE 1:1,000,000.

Reference (Deposit): TRENGOVE, R. R. INVESTIGATION OF COMET COALITION

Reference (Deposit): NEVADA. NV BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. MAP 78, 1983,

Reference (Deposit): JONES, R. B. LEAD DEPOSITS AND OCCURRENCES IN

Reference (Deposit): RMAG, 1979, PP. 389-396.

Reference (Deposit): UNITED STATES, 1933- 1967, ED. BY J. D. RIDGE. V. II, 1ST

Reference (Deposit): PIOCHE DISTRICT, NEVADA. CH. 54 IN ORE DEPOSITS OF THE

Reference (Deposit): PROF. PAPER 171, 1932, 75 PP.

Reference (Deposit): GEMMILL, P. THE GEOLOGY OF THE ORE DEPOSITS OF THE

Reference (Deposit): DEPOSITS OF THE PIOCHE DISTRICT, NEVADA. U.S. GEOL. SURV.

Reference (Deposit): WESTGATE, L. G., AND A. KNOPF. GEOLOGY AND ORE

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.