Manhattan Project Keystone Mine

The Manhattan Project Keystone Mine is a gold mine located in Nye county, Nevada at an elevation of 7,585 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Manhattan Project Keystone Mine
Secondary: Capital Nos. 1-3
Secondary: Keystone Mine 1996
Secondary: Keystone Wall Mine 1979
Secondary: Keystone Mine 1951
Secondary: Keystone Mine
Secondary: Summit Mine 1924
Secondary: Wall Prospect 1924
Secondary: Keystone Nos. 1-10 1979
Secondary: Capital
Secondary: Capital Fraction
Secondary: Keystone Jr. Claims 1988
Secondary: Wall Summit Mine 1986
Secondary: Keystone-Manhattan Mine 1996

Commodity

Primary: Gold
Tertiary: Silver
Tertiary: Fluorine-Fluorite

Location

State: Nevada
County: Nye
District: Keystone Area

Land Status

Land ownership: National Forest
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

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Workings

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Ownership

Owner Name: Nevada Goldfields, Inc.
Home Office: Nevada
Info Year: 1991

Owner Name: Dixie Exploration Corp.
Home Office: Nevada
Info Year: 1996

Production

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Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Plant
Plant Type: Leach
Operation Type: Surface
Mining Method: Open Pit
Milling Method: Heap Leach-Merrill-Crowe
Year First Production: 1930
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N

Physiography

General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Great Basin

Mineral Deposit Model

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Orebody

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Structure

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Alterations

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Rocks

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Analytical Data

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Materials

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Comments

Comment (Exploration): OPTIONED AND DRILLED BY FREEPORT IN 1983.

Comment (Economic Factors): MINED AND PROCESS 47,000 TONS (MILLABLE) + 40,000 TONS LEACHABLE) AT KINGSTON MILL ABOUT 50 MILES NORTH OF MANHATTAN - HAULED BY TRUCKS AT 770 TPD. PROCESSED 660 TPD WHEN MILL REACHED FULL CAPACITY IN 1990.

Comment (Reserve-Resource): DRILLED RESERVES 86,600 SHORT TONS @ 0.208 OZ AU AND UNKNOWN AG

Comment (Names): FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE KEYSTONE MINE, (CLOSED), NOW AS THE MANHATTAN PROJECT UNDER EXPLORATION FOR MORE RESOURCES. NEAR THE TOWN OF MANHATTAN. 50 MILES SO OF THE KINGSTON MINE.

Comment (Workings): ORE TRUCKED TO MILL LOCATED AT VICTORINE MINE IN LANDER COUNTY, NV.

Comment (Ownership): OWNED BY NORMA LAMBERT, LEASED BY ANTHONY SELIG, WHO LEASED IT TO NV GOLDFIELDS, WHO MINED THIS DEPOSIT IN 5 MOS. TIME IN 1990. NEW OPERATOR AS OF 1996, OWNER IS UNKNOWN AS OF 1996.

References

Reference (Deposit): RANGE, NEVADA, ADMINISTERED AS TOIYABE NATIONAL FOREST.

Reference (Deposit): AREAS OF DEVELOPMENT INTEREST IN THAT PART OF THE TOQUIMA

Reference (Deposit): 1990-1991 RANDOL MINING DIRECTORY, P. 222.

Reference (Deposit): P. 393-396.

Reference (Deposit): SHAWE, D.R., 1986, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, VOL. 81, NO. 2,

Reference (Deposit): P. 39-40.

Reference (Deposit): NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES & GEOLOGY BULLETIN 93, 1979,

Reference (Deposit): P. 97, 137, 138.

Reference (Deposit): FERGUSON, H.K., 1924, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 723,

Reference (Deposit): MINE OPERATIONS ACTIVE DURING CALENDAR YEAR 1990, P. 74.

Reference (Deposit): NEVADA DIVISION MINE INSPECTION, 1991, DIRECTORY OF NEVADA

Reference (Deposit): U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEOLOGY MAP, GQ-40, 1954, 1/125,000.

Reference (Deposit): P. 1.

Reference (Deposit): U.S. BUREAU OF MINES REPORT OF INVESTIGATION 4819, 1951,

Reference (Deposit): MINERAL SERIES 50, 1951, P. 1.

Reference (Deposit): UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA BULLETIN VOL. 49, NO. 3, GEOLOGY &

Reference (Deposit): KRAL, 1951, NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 50, P. 126.

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.