Paymaster

The Paymaster is a gold and silver mine located in Washoe county, Nevada.

About the MRDS Data:

All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.

Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Paymaster
Secondary: Fravel-Paymaster
Secondary: Poe Consolidated

Commodity

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

Location

State: Nevada
County: Washoe
District: Peavine District

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

Not available

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Stockwork
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S

Physiography

General Physiographic Area: Pacific Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Cascade-Sierra Mountains
Physiographic Section: Sierra Nevada

Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Epithermal quartz-alunite Au

Orebody

Not available

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Propylization

Rocks

Name: Quartz Monzonite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Cretaceous

Name: Quartz Monzonite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Pliocene

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

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

Comments

Comment (Workings): PAYMASTER SHAFT, 400 FT DEEP, HAS 2000 FT OF LATERAL WORKINGS (OVERTON, P 76). ECONOMIC MINERALIZATION OCCURS IN QUARTZ CALCITE STRINGERS OR VEINLETS, THESE VEINLETS ARE CONCENTRATED IN LODES OR STOCKWORK-LIKE BODIES OF UNKNOWN DIMENSIONS WHICH, IN GENERAL, PARALLEL THE FOLIATION IN THE METAMORPHIC ROCKS (N30 DEG-70 DEG E). THE WALL ROCKS ARE BLEACHED IN THE ZONE OF WEATHERING AND GRADE DOWNWARD INTO GREENISH PROPYLITIZED ROCKS CONTAINING ABUNDANT PYRITE (BONHAM, P 78)

References

Reference (Deposit): BONHAM, HF, GEOL & MIN DEP, WASHOE-STOREY CO, NEV, NBMG BULL 70, 1969

Reference (Deposit): OVERTON, TD, MIN RES DOUGLAS, ORMSBY, WASHOE CO, NEV, NBMG BULL 46, 1947

Reference (Deposit): HILL, JM, USGS BULL 594, 1915.

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.