The Hill of Gold Mine is a gold mine located in Esmeralda county, Nevada.
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Hill of Gold Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Hill of Gold Mine
Secondary: Hill of Gold Prospect
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Nevada
County: Esmeralda
District: Divide 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.
Administrative Organization: Tonopah BLM Administrative District
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Eastfield Resources, Ltd.
Info Year: 2004
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Deposit Type: epithermal, fault, vein
Operation Type: Surface-Underground
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: Y
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Epithermal vein, Comstock
Orebody
Form: tabular
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Rhyolite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Miocene
Name: Felsic Volcanic Rock
Role: Host
Description: rhyolitic
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Tertiary
Name: Tuff
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Miocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Deposit): Gold mineralization occurs along a northeast - trending fault which separates Tertiary Oddie Rhyolite and Fraction Tuff.
Comment (Development): Meridian Land and Mineral Co. of Billings, Montana owned the property in 1982. Meridian had about 150 claims over the area. The mine dumps were trenched for sampling and Meridian did some drilling in 1982 north of the shaft. The property was evaluated in 1991-93. Eastfield Resources, Ltd. controlled the property in 2004.
Comment (Economic Factors): In 1988 the property contained a reported 500,000 tons grading 0.04 ounces of gold per ton and 0.4 ounces of silver per ton. Estimated reserves and resources in 2004 were 6.3 million tons of material grading 0.023 ounces of gold per ton. Reserves at the Hill of Gold deposit in 1988 were reported as 500 Kilotonnes of ore grading 0.04 opt Au and 0.4 opt Ag. In 1996, reserves were reported as 1.629 million tons grading 0.026 ounces of gold per ton.
Comment (Geology): Drill holes encountered spotty gold mineralization.
Comment (Identification): This record contain all data from earlier MRDS record # M241884 plus additional material.
Comment (Workings): The early mine was developed by a shaft and underground workings. There is an old mill foundation on the property. There was a metal building on the site from about 1977 to 1979 or so with piles of ore near it.
Comment (Commodity): Ore Materials: gold
References
Reference (Deposit): Bonham, H.F., Jr. And Garside, L.J., 1979, NBMG Bull 96.
Reference (Deposit): Tingley, J.V., 1972, unpublished reports.
Reference (Deposit): Garside, L.J., 1982, Field Examination, NBMG, 8 Jul 82.
Reference (Deposit): Bonham, H.F., Jr. and Garside, L.J., 1979, NBMG Bull 92.
Reference (Deposit): Long, K.R., DeYoung, J.H., Jr., and Ludington, S.D., 1998, Database of significant deposits of gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc in the United States; Part A, Database description and analysis; part B, Digital database: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-206, 33 p., one 3.5 inch diskette.
Reference (Deposit): Davis and Tingley, 1999
Reference (Deposit): Eastfield Resources, Ltd., 2004a, 2004b.
Reference (Deposit): Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
Reference (Deposit): Smith and Tingley, 1983.
Reference (Deposit): Smith and others, 1983
Reference (Deposit): Tingley, 1998
Reference (Deposit): Tregaskis, 1997.
Reference (Deposit): United States Bureau of Land Management, 1978t
Reference (Deposit): United States Geological Survey, 1987.
Reference (Deposit): Giancola, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998
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.
