Woodville Shaft

The Woodville Shaft is a silver and gold mine located in Storey county, Nevada at an elevation of 5,371 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Woodville Shaft

Commodity

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

Location

State: Nevada
County: Storey
District: Comstock Lode

Land Status

Land ownership: Private
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: Dayton Mines Inc

Owner Name: Dayton Mines Inc.

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Vein
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
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
Physiographic Detail: Basin And Mountains

Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Epithermal vein, Comstock

Orebody

Form: TABULAR

Structure

Type: R
Description: Silver City Fault

Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Strong-Sericitization, Pyritization, Propylitization

Rocks

Name: Andesite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Miocene

Name: Andesite
Role: Host
Age Type: Associated Rock Unit
Age Young: Miocene

Name: Andesite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Miocene

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Argentite
Ore: Pyrite
Ore: Sphalerite
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Galena
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Calcite

Comments

Comment (Production): SOM COPPER PRODUCTION, TOO.

Comment (Development): MINED UNDER AUSPICES OF DAYTON MINES, INC.

Comment (Deposit): VEIN/SILVER CITY FAULT

Comment (Geology): "WOODVILLE VEIN PROVED TO BE ONE OF THE MOST PRODUCTIVE VEINS OF THE DISTRICT"-GIANELLA

Comment (Deposit): THIS PROPERTY WAS MINED UNDER THE ASUPICES OF THE DAYTON MINE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

References

Reference (Deposit): STODDARD, CARL, AND CARPENTER, J.A., 1950, MINERAL RESOURCES OF STOREY AND LYON COUNTIES, NEVADA NBMG BULL 49

Reference (Deposit): GIANELLA, V.P., 1936, GEOLOGY OF THE SILVER CITY DISTRICT AND THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE COMSTOCK LODE; UNIV. NEVADA BULL. VOL. 30, NO. 9

Reference (Production): STODDARD, C., AND CARPENTER, J.A., 1950

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.