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Birch

Occurrence in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodities Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite
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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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037293
MRDS ID M031257
Record type Site
Current site name Birch
Related records 10296321

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.99031, 39.56854 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Steptoe Ranch(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Kern Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ely(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Long-Ruby Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(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 White Pine

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
20N;21N 62E 32 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • FLUORSPAR PROSPECT IN SECT. 32

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Tertiary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Devonian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.99031, 39.56854
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Faulted Area

Comments on the geologic information

  • FLUORSPAR IDENTIFIED IN A FAULTED AREA IN LIMESTONE AND VOLCANIC ROCKS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Significant No

Mining district

District name Hunter

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 36.58M
    Overall depth 14.33M
    Overall length 21.34M
    Overall width 6.1M

Comments on the workings information

  • DEPTH OF SURFACE WORKING IS 30 FT. UNDERGROUND WORKINGS FOR THE FLUORSPAR PROSPECT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HOSE, BLAKE, & SMITH 1976 GEO & MIN RESOURCES OF WHITE PINE CO. NEV., NEV BUREAU OF MINES & GEO BULL 85

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1979 Giorgi, Albert John (Roberts, Ralph) 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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