Peggy Lee Prospect

Occurrence in Lincoln county in Nevada, United States with commodity Zinc
Sections on this page
  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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037391
MRDS ID M032096
Record type Site
Current site name Peggy Lee Prospect
Related records 10198416

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.78695, 37.52914 (WGS84)
Relative position 5 MILES N OF DELAMAR, 3 MILES FROM DELAMAR ZINC MINE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pahroc Spring SE(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Caliente(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Caliente(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Dry Lake Valley(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 Lincoln

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
05S 64E 11 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • NO ORE MINERAL GIVEN IN THE LITERATURE

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.78695, 37.52914

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • PROSPECT IN LIMESTONE NEAR VOLCANIC CONTACT. NO ORE MINERALS VISIBLE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Delamar (Ferguson)

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TSCHANTZ CM & PAMPEYAN EH, 1970, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF LINCOLN CO., NEV BUR MINES BULL 73

  • Deposit

    CALLAGHAN E., 1937, GEOLOGY OF THE DELAMAR DISTRICT, LINCOLN CO, NEV BUR MINES, V. 31, NO. 5, P. 66-68

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-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.

External references

Authoritative Nevada resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.