The Amalgamated Uranium Co. Mines is a uranium mine located in Mineral county, Nevada.
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Mine Info
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Amalgamated Uranium Co. Mines MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Amalgamated Uranium Co. Mines
Secondary: Carol R. Mine
Secondary: Wespacgroup
Commodity
Primary: Uranium
Location
State: Nevada
County: Mineral
District: Hawthorne 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.
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: H. E. And W. R. Lyle And D. S. Baker
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1955
Discovery Year: 1954
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
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Rhyolite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Holocene
Name: Rhyolite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: GRAB SPECIMEN 0.40% U3O8
Materials
Ore: Carnotite
Comments
Comment (Location): 1:250000 QUADRANGLE MAP IS A 1955 EDITION
Comment (Deposit): HIGHEST RADIOACTIVE READINGS IN THE PIT WERE 0.6 MR/HR WITH A BACKGROUND OF 0.03 TO 0.05 MR/HR ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Comment (Deposit): CARNOTITE OCCURS BETWEEN GRAINS AND DISSEMINATED ALONG BEDDING AND FRACTURES IN SEDIMENTARY ROCKS. THE URANIUM MINERALIZATION OCCURS ALONG THE MARGIN OF A PERLITIC RHYOLITE INTRUSIVE IN THE SEDIMENTARY ROCKS. SOME RADIOACTIVITY WAS ALSO NOTED IN THE BASALT OVERLYING THE SEDIMENTARY ROCK
Comment (Workings): OPEN PIT AND SMALLER PITS AND BULLDOZER SCRAPINGS. RECENT DRILLING REPORTED (1972).
Comment (Geology): THE SEDIMENTS OVERLIE GRANITE, AND LIE BENEATH A BASALT FLOW, AND ARE INTRUDED BY A SMALL, PERLITIC RHYOLITE NECK.
References
Reference (Deposit): ROSS, D. C., 1961, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA; NBMG BULL. 58
Reference (Deposit): GARSIDE, L. J., 1973, RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES IN NEVADA; NBMG BULL. 81
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.
