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Hilltop Mine

Past Producer in Clark county in Nevada, United States with commodity Uranium
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037178
MRDS ID M031056
Record type Site
Current site name Hilltop Mine
Related records 10246663

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.18442, 36.27333 (WGS84)
Elevation 1463
Relative position 1 MILE SE OF GOLD BUTTE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Clark(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gold Butte(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lake Mead(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Las Vegas(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lake Mead(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management NV)

Bureau of Land Management NV BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Clark

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
019S 070E 21 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • AREA UNSURVEYED

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • QUARTZ AND FELDSPAR OF COMMERCIAL GRADE,BUT NO READYMARKET IN VICINITY.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.18442, 36.27333
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description 2 N Trending Faults Dividing The Virgin Range In The Gold Butte Area Into Monodinal Ridges With An E Dip.

Ore body information

  • General form LENTICULAR

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORE FOUND IN LENTICULAR PEGMATITE BODY CUTTING THE GRANITE, 180 FT. LONG AND 30 FEET WIDE. PEGMATITE BODY TRENDS N AND DIPS STEEPLY TO THE E. SAMARSKITE IS SPARSELY AND IRREGULARLY DISTRIBUTED IN THE DIKE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Gold Butte

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION OF 30 LB. SAMARSKITE REPORTED.

Comments on the workings information

  • SURFACE; OVER A LENGTH OF 180 FEET AND A WIDTH OF 30FEET.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LONGWELL, C. R., PAMPEYAN, E. H., BOWYER, B., ROBERTS, R. J., 1965 , GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF CLARK CO. NEV. BUR MINES, BULL. 62 , P. 183 .

  • Deposit

    HILL, J. M., 1916 , NOTES ON SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN EASTERN NEVADA USGS BULL. 648 , P. 47 .

  • Production

    LONGWELL, ETAL, 1965

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1979 Harner, Joy L. (Roberts, Ralph J.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-FEB-1983 Shonnard, Ann T. (Tingley, Joe V.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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