Pride of the Mountain Mine

The Pride of the Mountain Mine is a gold and silver mine located in Humboldt county, Nevada at an elevation of 4,400 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Pride of the Mountain Mine
Secondary: Pride of the West Mine

Commodity

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

Location

State: Nevada
County: Humboldt
District: Winnemucca Mountain

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

Not available

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Vein
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1868
Discovery Year: 1863
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
Physiographic Detail: Basin And Mountains

Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Polymetallic veins

Orebody

Form: TABULAR

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

Name: Hornfels
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Triassic

Name: Hornfels
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Triassic

Analytical Data

Analytical Data: $40 TO $100/TON IN AU AND IN EARLY DAYS

Materials

Gangue: Quartz

Comments

Comment (Location): NW PT. SEC 23; S. SLOPE WINNEMUCCA MTN.

Comment (Deposit): MINE WAS FIRST WORKED IN 1868, AND WAS WORKED THROUGH 1877. THE FIRST ORE WAS SHIPPED TO SAN FRANCISCO, BUT LATER ORE WAS TREATED BY STAMPING, ROASTING AND AMALGAMATION IN THE HUMBOLDT REDUCTION WORKS AT WINNEMUCCA. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

References

Reference (Production): WILLDEN, R., 1964

Reference (Deposit): WILLDEN, R., 1964, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF HUMBOLDT CO., NEV.; NEV. BUREAU OF MINES BULL. 59

Reference (Deposit): LINDGREN, W., 1915, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE NATIONAL MINING DISTRICT, NEVADA; U.S.G.S. BULL. 601

Reference (Deposit): FERGUSON, H. G., MULLER, S. W., ROBERTS, R. J., GEOLOGY OF THE WINNEMUCCA WUAD.,. NEV.; G.W.-11

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.