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Gold from
Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mining District
Classification
Species:Gold
Formula:Au
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gold data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:193723
Long-form Identifier:1:3:193723:7
GUID (UUID V4):a6e25fb1-ff0e-48dc-8c60-93295adbfc2e
Localities for Gold in this Region
King Tonopah Mine, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
Midway Mine, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
Tonopah Mining Company, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
Mizpah Mine (Mizpah shaft), Tonopah, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
Tonopah Divide Mine, Tonopah, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
West End Mine, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Gold
0.4km (0.3 miles) King Tonopah Mine, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
0.9km (0.6 miles) Mizpah Mine (Mizpah shaft), Tonopah, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
1.6km (1.0 miles) Tonopah Mining Company, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
1.6km (1.0 miles) Midway Mine, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
2.3km (1.4 miles) West End Mine, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, USA
2.7km (1.7 miles) Keystone Prospect, Tonopah Mining District, San Antonio Mountains, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
4.6km (2.8 miles) NBMG Sample Site 439, Tonopah Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
7.6km (4.7 miles) Three Hills Prospect, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
7.9km (4.9 miles) Hill of Gold Mine, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
8.5km (5.3 miles) B.C.H. Minerals Company Property, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
ALTERATION-MINERALIZATION IN THE TONOPAH MINING DISTRICT AND VICINITY, NYE AND ESMERALDA COUNTIES, NEVADA!/ 2/ 3/ 3/ M...standards I/ Prepared in cooperation with the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology 2/ United States Geological...Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA 3/ Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Reno, NV Radiometric Ages of...Alteration-Mineralization in the Tonopah Mining District and Vicinity, Nye and Esmeralda Counties, Nevada M. L. Silberman...mineralization in the Tonopah mining district and vicinity carried out by members of the Nevada Bureau of Mines
Report (issue)
Utah--Federal Bldg., Rm. 8105, 125 South State St. SAN FRANCISCO, California--Customhouse, Rm. 504, 555...and Mineral Resources Maps of the Tonopah 1 o by 2° Quadrangle, Nevada By DAVID A. JOHN, J. THOMAS NASH...and mineral resources maps of the Tonopah 1o by 2° quadrangle, Nevada I by David A. john ... [et al.]....4/2: 1070 1. Mines and mineral resources-Nevada. 2. Geology-Nevada. 3. Conterminous United States Mineral...FIGURE 1. Map showing Tonopah I o by 2° quadrangle 2 TABLE I. Contents of Tonopah 1o by 2° CUSMAP folio
Report (issue)
University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0088, U.S.A. Eiji Izawa, Department of Mining, Faculty of Engineering...Fluid-inclusion and geochemical studies at the Emperor gold mine, Fiji; Unpub. Ph.D. dissertation, University...S.A., 72 p. Ashley, R. P., 1974, Goldfield mining district, jLn Guidebook to the geology of four Tertiary...Tertiary volcanic centers in central Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Report 19, p. 49-66. Ashley...between volcanism and ore deposition at Goldfield, Nevada, in Proceedings of the Fifth Quadrennial Symposium
Report (issue)
Geology and development of the Hishikari mine: Mining Geology, v. 36 (2), no. 196, p. 117. Adams, S....Fluid-inclusion and geochemical studies at the Emperor gold mine, Fiji: Unpub. Ph.D. dissertation, University...46, p. 9-24. Ashley, R. P., 1974, Goldfield mining district, in Guidebook to the geology of four Tertiary...Tertiary volcanic centers in centraT~Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Report 19, p. 49-66. Ashley...between volcanism and ore deposition at Goldfield, Nevada, in Proceedings of the Fifth Quadrennial Symposium
Book
f. MIMING DISTRICTS and MINERAL RESOURCES of NEVADA by FRANCIS CHURCH LINCOLN i r r i i ; %■... ; 'jxt . 1 — \ MINING DISTRICTS and MINERAL RESOURCES of NEVADA by FRANCIS CHURCH LINCOLN...LINCOLN 0 ll ; RENO NEVADA NEWSLETTER PUBLISHING COMPANY 1923 PREFACE Earlier Works. The object of...infor­ mation concerning the mining districts and mineral resources of Nevada. No comprehensive work of...peared for a number of years. In the early days of Nevada min­ ing, from 1866 to 1878, the field was covered
Report (volume)
--_--___-_--__-_--__ Nonferrous-metal deposits [gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc], by T. B. Nolan.__...4. A, The "eggshell" beds, West End area, Clark County, Nev.; B, Anniversary mine, West End area_____________________...near Bissell, Kern County, Calif.; B, Magnesite mine, Afton area, San Bernardino County, Calif _______________________...of brucite-magnesite area in Paradise Range, Nye County, Nev_-----___________________________ 122 142...Annual production of nonferrous metals in Vulture district, Arizona, 1907-32__----_____--_ ._.____ 2. Annual
Report (volume)
Signatures of Silver and Gold Depo~its, Tonopah.l,0 X,2° Qu.adrangle, Nevada~ Description and Applications... Geochemical Signatures of Silver and Gold Deposits, Tonopah 1°X 2 o Quadrangle, NevadaDescription and...signatures of silver and gold deposits, Tonopah 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada: description and applications...3:2077 1. Gold mines and mining-Nevada-Tonopah region. 2. Gold mines and mining-Nevada-Tonopah region.......................... . Silver and Gold Deposits in the Tonopah Quadrangle ........................
Report (issue)
resource areas in the Basin and Range Province of Nevada by George Wong Open-File Report 83-721 This...Appendix A **~""~~"* "* *** *"* * » Table Table 1. District descriptions . .-.-.-. . -.-. . . . .-. .-. <...resource areas in the Basin and Range Province of Nevada By George Wong The purpose of this map is to identify...Province. These areas include past and present mining and prospecting localities as well as areas of...map are not legal mining district boundaries and may include more than one district as well as adjacent
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Volcanic and Plutonic Rocks, Southern Nye and Western Lincoln Counties, Nevada ABSTRACT The geochronology of...of Tertiary igneous events at the Nevada Test Site and adjacent area is outlined by 36 recently determined...southern Egan and northern Seaman Ranges of central Nevada, the Needles Range (?) Formation has an averaged...eastern Nevada and western Utah. K-Ar ages given by micas from two exposed plutons in the Nevada Test Site...Stratigraphic sequences in southern Nye and Lincoln Counties, Nevada. Kistler (1968) demonstrated the analytical
Report (issue)
WALCOTT, DIRECTOR GEOLOGY OF THE TONOPAH MINING DISTRICT, NEVADA BY JOSIAH EDw-ARD SPURR .. . =. ...·_____________ . __________ . ______________ .. Tonopah rhyolite:dacite .... _. _.................... _...... __ .... _.............. ----.-Analyses of Tonopah 'lavas. _____ ______ . _____________ . ____________...vents-------------·------------·----Theory of differentiation of Tonopah lavas from a uniform type. _.... . ........ Pseudomorphs........................... _..... Hornblende in Tonopah lavas ... _....... _.. __ ._._ .... . __ ... _
Report (issue)
Epithermal Gold Deposits-Paf! I "k AVAILABILITY OF BOOKS AND MAPS OF THE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Instructions...Utah--Federal Bldg., Rm. 8105, 125 South State St. • SAN FRANCISCO, California--Customhouse, Rm 504, 555 Battery...Epithermal Gold Deposits-Part I The Goldfield Gold District, Esmeralda and Nye Counties, Nevada By ROGER...P. ASH LEY The Tonopah Precious-metal District, Esmeralda and Nye Counties, Nevada By ROGER P. ASH LEY...LEY The Republic Gold District, Ferry County, Washington By MORTIMER H. STMTZ and ROBERT C. PEARSON
Book
Mining Archaeology Bera sat ewan selon (1 PO cug cuknetn asc Boe BMe cry Mining played a prominent...Comstock Lode in Nevada in 1859, mining became increasingly industrialized, changing mining technology, society...world. In the wake of these changes Nevada became an important mining region, with new people and technologies...technologies further altering the ways mining was pursued and miners Tetae Historical archaeology offers...offers a research strategy for understanding mining and miners that integrates three independent sources
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE GEOLOGY MARCH-APRIL, MINING HENRY DISTRICTS 1929 No. 2 OF NEVADA. G. FERGUSON3 ABSTRACT....representedin Nevada;theearliestoredeposits areassociated withgraniticrocks,which in western Nevada were intruded...depositssilverexceedsgold by weight,while in thoseof Plioceneage gold is commonlyin excess. The Miocenedepositshave on...silver-gold veins of Miocene age are likely to prove of more importancethan the Pliocene gold-bearingveins...geographicand geologicdistributionof the ore depositsof Nevada. The wr{ter's personalacquaintance with the regionis
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in 1924 for a dissertationon the SpringMountains,Nevada,which led to his lifelong interestin Basin and...Mother Lode gold district in California. Nolan subsequentlystudiedAu depositsin Utah, Nevada,and Arizona...publicationson the Eureka, Gold Hill, Tonopah, Tuscarora,and other mining districts. He evaluatedpotash...ly in most, even though I was supposedto be in mining geology, prestigeand size. was geologicmapping...p 25-44. 1928 A late Paleozoic positive area in Nevada: American Journal of Science,5th series,v 16, p
Report (issue)
Smith, Director Bulletin 795 F THE GILBERT DISTRICT, NEVADA BY HENRY G. FERGUSON Contributions to economic...Mammoth ____ __________ ___________ 141 Gilbert Gold Mining Co________________________ Tom Crown________...of the Gilbert district, Nev____ _ 10. Geologic map and section of the Gilbert district, Nev ii 126 127...127 THE GILBERT DISTRICT, NEVADA By HENRY G. FERGTJSON INTRODUCTION The eastern part of the Monte...Monte Cristo Range, in Esmeralda County, Nev., has been prospected for many years, and one mine, the Carrie
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
theTonopah,Comstock Lode, andGoldfieldMiningDistricts,Nevada* Hos• P. TAYLOR,J'R. Abstract Oxygen isotopeanalyseswere...and hydrothermal veins at Tonopah,Goldfield,and the ComstockLode. At Tonopah,the $Ots valuesare as follows:...BohemiaDistrict, hasproducedlessthan $1 million in gold. Therefore,it seemedworthwhile to extend these types...areas at the time of mineralization. ßTuscarora NEVADA 'COMSTOCK %A• ODE rata ß Round Mtn. This ...Forester, 1971; Forester and FIG. 1. Index map of Nevada showing locations of the ore Taylor, 1972) that
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1827–1853 Miocene and Early Pliocene Epithermal Gold-Silver Deposits in the Northern Great Basin, Western...high-sulfidation gold and porphyry copper-gold deposits are absent. Both high- and low-sulfidation gold-silver...gold-silver and porphyry copper-gold deposits are affiliated with the western andesite assemblage and include the...the Comstock Lode, Tonopah, Goldfield, Aurora, Bodie, Paradise Peak, and Rawhide deposits. Low-sulfidation...1998). Famous districts include Comstock Lode, Tonopah, Goldfield, Aurora, and Bodie, and significant
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA Peer Hen By CASTOR oan eGORY.C.oFER DOCK NEVADA AND BUREAU... UNIVERSITY Reno & Las Vegas OF NEVADA PRESS GEOLOGY Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...otherwise noted Map of Mining Districts and significant mineral occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Castor, Stephen B, Minerals of Nevada / Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.— Ist
Report (issue)
Mountain region of Wyoming contains few metalliferous mining camps. Moreover, not many of those that have been...other resources. Next to the Grand Encampment district, which yielded a fair amount of copper ore from... and the South Pass district,, which has a record of producing $450,000 in gold from 1868 to 1872, Kirwin...upon which a little work is done each summer, the district is practically abandoned. Ore was first discovered... Kirwin has been the scene of much ill-advised mining practice, with the result that the possible merit
Report (volume)
ILLUSTRATIONS. PLATE I. Geologic map of Tonopah mining district........................ FIG. 1. Plan of............ 2. Map showing outcropping veins at Tonopah........................ 3. Detailed vertical section...Valley View veins........ 4. Ideal cross section of Tonopah rocks .............................. Page. 7 18...is mean sea level GEOLOGIC MAP 'OF TONOPAH MINING DISTRICT. NO. 219 White rhyolite Later dacite...AND POPULATION. Tonopah is situated in Nye County, Nev., near the Esraeralda County line. It lies south
Report (issue)
2° quadrangle, Nevada, with indexing by county, commodity, mine name, mining district, and selected major...resources of the Winnemucca 1° x 2° quadrangle area, Nevada, were collected in support of a series of U.S....occur within the Winnemucca 1° by 2° quadrangle, Nevada: Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, and Pershing Counties...Table 3 is a listing of references by mine and mining district names. Finally, Table 4 indexes the references...for the five Nevada Counties that occur in the Winnemucca 1° by 2° quadrangle, Nevada. COUNTY REFERENCES
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
NO. 2 A Special Issue Devoted to Gold Deposits in Northern Nevada: Part 1. Regional Studies and Epithermal...Northern Nevada is one of the Earth’s premier gold- and silver-producing regions, and gold and silver...Carlin-type sedimentary rock-hosted disseminated gold deposits (Christensen, 1995; Teal and Jackson, 1997;...America’s most prolific gold mining district, producing nearly 125 t (4 Moz) of gold annually. Since large-scale...large-scale mining began in 1965 with the opening of the Carlin mine, the Carlin trend has produced more
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA STEPHEN B. CASTOR and G R EGOR Y C . F E R D OC K l NEVADA BUREAU...association with the UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA PRESS Reno & Las Vegas Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...Districts and si gnificant minernl occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved...-Publ ication Dat,i Castor, Stephen B. Minerals of Nevada/ Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.- rst
Report (issue)
ty ai mee ae 5 Slee ST OCA SRN Rare ereee ee ARLS nye EC Aa mt ein) a (sag eRe: eg eee Dae SullyAhearn...NevadaiGity —'Grass: Valley) iter ore ae ee Shasta County a eee cere asses ee avs Oe ee COlOTAMGS ee Pie...possible to designate the individual mines of which a district is composed but rather that the geological conditions...conditions from one mine to another within the district are so generally the same that what is said of...Canadian Institute of Mining*and| Metallurgye a. 12ers ee ett elt hanes Engineering and Mining Journal......
Report (issue)
Air Force Base Bombing and Gunnery Range, Nye County, Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL Prepared...Air Force Base Bombing and Gunnery Range, Nye County, Nevada By E. B. EKREN, R. E. ANDERSON, C. L. ROGERS...Devonian._____________________________________ Nevada Formation._________________________ Limestone and...__________________________________ Tuff and rhyolite of Gold Flat________________ Tuff of White Blotch Spring_________________...Mesa___---------Mines and mining. ___________ Antelope Springs district... Trappman Hills-__-____-_ Gold Crater_____
 
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