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Quartette Mine

Past Producer in Clark county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Copper, Silver, Lead, Molybdenum
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037033
MRDS ID M030081
Record type Site
Current site name Quartette Mine
Related records 10197704

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.9211, 35.45251 (WGS84)
Elevation 1097
Relative position .75 MILE SOUTH OF SEARCHLIGHT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Clark(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Searchlight(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Davis Dam(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Kingman(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Piute Wash(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Clark

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
29S 63E 02,03 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • SOUTHERN MOST IN THE DISTRICT

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Copper Primary
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Molybdenum Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Brochantite Ore
Chalcocite Ore
Chrysocolla Ore
Cuprite Ore
Galena Ore
Linarite Ore
Malachite Ore
Mottramite Ore
Vanadinite Ore
Wulfenite Ore
Hematite Gangue

Analytical data

Result AU: AG = 1:1

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 85
USGS model code 22c
Deposit model name Polymetallic veins
Mark3 model number 46

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

(1) Alluvium, undifferentiated
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Post Mineral Faults Offset The Vein In Various Places

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Regional Fracturing In Less Competent Rocks Around The Border Of The Quartz Monzonite Body

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORE IS SOFT SHATTERED MASS OF ALTERED COUNTRY ROCK MINGLED WITH THE ORE MINERALS. GOOD ORE USUALLY ASSOCIATED WITH CHRYSOCOLLA WULFERITE VERY COMMON BUT DOES NOT INDICATE ORE, LIKEWISE WITH HEMATITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No

Mining district

District name Searchlight

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Searchlight Gold Corp.
    First year 1930

Comments on the production information

  • QUARTETTE IS LARGEST PRODUCER IN THE DISTRICT, CUMULATIVE PRODUCTION IS FOR ENTIRE DISTRICT, QUARTETTE ACCOUNTED FOR 64% OF THE AU, 21% AG, 58% CU, AND 13% PB OF THE TOTAL

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 8851.15M
    Overall depth 355.7M

Comments on the workings information

  • PROPERTY CONSISTS OF 13 PATENTED CLAIMS. THE VEIN CROPS OUT IN THREE OF THEM

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CALLAGHAN, E. 1939, GEOLOGY OF THE SEARCHLIGHT DISTRICT, CLARK CO. USGS BULL 906-D P. 161-164

  • Deposit

    LONGWELL CR, PAMPEYAN EH, BOWYER B, ROBERTS RJ, 1965 GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF CLARK CO. NEV BUR OF MINES BULL 62 P. 201

  • Production

    CALLAGAN, 1939

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1978 Theodore Ted G U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-1979 Harner, Joy L. (Roberts, Ralph J.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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