Historic Lodi Mine Property
20 Acre Lode Claim Lodi District
Nye County, NevadaContact Gold Rush Expeditions
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Gold Rush Expeditions, Inc. is proud to present the Historic Lodi Mine Property. The Lodi Mine is contained within a 20 acre lode mineral claim. The Lodi Mine is for sale exclusively through Gold Rush Expeditions, Inc. The Lodi Mine is located just outside of Fallon, Nevada and has been properly staked and marked at all corners.
All Gold Rush Expeditions, Inc. claims are meticulously surveyed, mapped and researched. On-site field work is completed by Corey Shuman and Jessica Shuman, nationally recognized Mineral Surveyors with over 36 years of combined experience.
The Lodi Mine may have also been known as the H&H or H&M Mine in the recent past (1960 and later). There is very limited information on the past production or development of the property. Surveyor assessments from onsite survey are relied on for the majority of this information.
The Lodi Mine site is dominated by an industrial sized headframe/ore bin combination. Standing roughly 30 feet tall, the structure serviced a double compartment decline (85 degree) shaft. The shaft decline quickly turns into a 90 degree run. This shaft will need clearing as there are some overburden and slough on the upper edges of both the manway and the main pull. Based on the waste dump size the shaft is likely 150-200' with at 300-500' of drifting at unknown levels.
The waste dump shows quartz with heavily oxidized iron and pyrites. Very little indication of lead or silver. The assumption is gold was located in iron-bearing quartz veins. The gold is likely coarse, native gold as noted in the Illinois and other mines in the vicinity. Lack of good samples in the waste dump could either indicate high values (where no samples were left behind due to value) or minimal values (no deposit located and thus no samples).
There is another series of trenches to the south of the Lodi Mineshaft, these work up to a series of very old adits which are mostly obscured and will need significant work to re-open. The waste dumps on the 2 main adits are much more interesting. They show similar oxidized pyrites on quartz, but there is also small bits of native gold in fine veinlets visible in larger bits of crushed quartz. This waste dump appears to also have significant amounts of ore and deposits from inside the mines that have washed out and through the old drifts, depositing on the waste dumps and running down the hillside from heavy water runoff.
Recommended site for small mining operation for early development. The shaft and adits will require rehabilitation to be safe for use. Once stabilized these drifts should give a good insight into the deposits and veins intersected in the workings. Sampling and drilling would define values and give direction of future workings. Bonds would be required for earnest work to begin.
History of the Lodi Mine
This mine may have been known as the H and M mine. The history is unknown, but there was a brief, biased survey conducted in 1986.
Shaft was sunk on a 4'-5' thick band of silicated limestone and skarn within a largely hornfels section. There are large areas of outcrop of a fine¬grained, green lamprophyre dike to the north and south of the shaft, skarn may be related to the dike contacts. The shaft workings are on the nose of a fold, where a shear zone cuts through the fold. Strike of the beds changes from N45W to N30E just north of the shaft. A northeast-trending of oxidation/coloration extends along strike to the northeast for about 1000 feet from the shaft.[1]
Reference:
1. Tingley, J.V. H and M Mine. 1986
Asking Price: $8,500
Contact: Gold Rush Expeditions
Use code JRM1003 for a 10% discount.
www.goldrushexpeditions.com
Ph: 385-218-2138
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