Silver City Placers

The Silver City Placers is a gold mine located in Lyon county, Nevada.

About the MRDS Data:

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Silver City Placers
Secondary: Dayton Dredging Co. Mine
Secondary: Rae Placers
Secondary: Oro-Neva Dredging Co. placers

Commodity

Primary: Gold

Location

State: Nevada
County: Lyon
District: Silver City 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.
Administrative Organization: Carson City BLM Administrative District

Holdings

Not available

Workings

Not available

Ownership

Not available

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: placer
Operation Type: Surface
Year First Production: 1849
Discovery Year: 1849
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: Y

Physiography

Not available

Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Placer Au-PGE

Orebody

Not available

Structure

Type: R
Description: Folded and deformed Triassic rocks, Mesozoic intrusions, faults and fissures.

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

Name: Gravel
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Quaternary

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Gold

Comments

Comment (Identification): This record incorporates contains all information in earlier MRDS record MP90065 for some of the Silver City Placer mines plus additional updated material.

Comment (Location): The deposits are located in Gold Canyon near Silver City.

Comment (Commodity): Ore Materials: GOLD

Comment (Development): A dragline and floating washer plant were used in the early 1940s.

Comment (Economic Factors): 1941-42, 1946-47, 1952-54: Abt. 38 K oz Au 1920-23: Combined Rae and Manuel King (Sec. 22) placers: 14,621 oz Au, 7,482 oz Ag; 1940: 3,365 oz Au, 1,703 oz Ag from 644,455 cu. yds.

References

Reference (Deposit): Johnson, M.G., 1973a, Placer Gold Deposits of Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1356, 118 p.

Reference (Deposit): Johnson, M.G., 1977, Geology and Mineral Deposits of Pershing County, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Bulletin 89, 115 p.

Reference (Deposit): Koschmann, A.H., and Bergendahl, M.H., 1968, Principal Gold-Producing Districts of the United States: U.S. Geological Survey Prof. Paper 610, 283 p.

Reference (Deposit): Long, K.R., DeYoung, J.H., Jr., and Ludington, S.D., 1998, Database of significant deposits of gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc in the United States; Part A, Database description and analysis; part B, Digital database: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-206, 33 p., one 3.5 inch diskette.

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.