Silver City Lode Deposits

The Silver City Lode Deposits is a gold and silver mine located in Lyon county, Nevada at an elevation of 5,315 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Silver City Lode Deposits
Secondary: Dayton
Secondary: Haywood-Santiago (Oliver Hills)
Secondary: Alhambra Lode

Commodity

Primary: Gold
Primary: Silver
Tertiary: Manganese
Tertiary: Iron

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: vein
Operation Type: Surface-Underground
Year First Production: 1873
Discovery Year: 1859
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: Y
Deposit Size: L

Physiography

Not available

Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Epithermal vein, Comstock

Orebody

Form: tabular

Structure

Type: R
Description: Silver City Fault

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

Name: Andesite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Tertiary

Name: Rhyolite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Tertiary

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Gold
Ore: Gold
Ore: Electrum
Ore: Pyrite
Ore: Argentite
Gangue: Calcite
Gangue: Ankerite
Gangue: Quartz

Comments

Comment (Economic Factors): Between 1871 and 1940, the Silver City lode vein system produced about 6 tonnes of gold and 236 tonnes of silver from 611,000 metric tonnes of ore

Comment (Geology): Late pyrite (post-mineral) occurs abundantly in gouge and wallrocks

Comment (Commodity): Ore Materials: free gold, free silver, electrum, pyrite, argentite

Comment (Commodity): Gangue Materials: calcite, ankerite, Mn-oxide, quartz

Comment (Deposit): The mines are located just north of Silver City on the Silver City lode, vein.

Comment (Development): Ore production was confined to shallow depths, (less than 300 ft)

References

Reference (Deposit): Gianella, V.P., 1936, Geology of the Silver City District and the southern portion of the Comstock Lode, Nevada; Univ. Nev. Bull. Vol. 30, No. 9

Reference (Deposit): WPA State Writer's Project, 1940-41, Individual histories of the mines of the Comstock; unpublished open-file report, Nev. Bur. Mines & Geol.

Reference (Deposit): Long, K.R., DeYoung, J.H., Jr., and Ludington, S.D., 1998, Significant deposits of gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc in the United States: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 90-206A, 33 p.; 98-206B. 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.