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Badger Mine

Producer in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Lead, Manganese, Barium-Barite
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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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037465
MRDS ID M035332
Record type Site
Current site name Badger Mine
Alternate or previous names Woodchuck? Nbmg # 3579

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.36762, 38.27854 (WGS84)
Elevation 2012
Relative position NORTH FLANK EXCELSIOR MTNS. 16 MI. SW OF MINA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Moho Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Excelsior Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Fish Lake-Soda Spring 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 Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 005N 032E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • GROUP OF ADITS AND PROSPECTS .2 MI. SE OF BIRDSONG MINE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Secondary
Manganese Critical Tertiary
Barium-Barite Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Ore
Chalcopyrite Gangue
Sphalerite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Dolomite Calcite Vein In Quartzite

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.36762, 38.27854
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike N 70 W
    Dip 75 N

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Galena

Comments on the geologic information

  • ONE THREE HUNDRED FOOT ADIT AND NUMEROUS PITS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Marietta

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner American Gold
    Home office Beatty, Nv.

Comments on the production information

  • TOTAL PRODUCTION EST BY ROSS AT $75,000

Comments on the workings information

  • 300 FT ADIT AND NUMEROUS PITS

Comments on development

  • UNKNOWN,BUT THOUGHT TO BE FROM THE 1870'S ERA. ; ECON.COM: TOTAL PRODUCTION ESTIMATED BY ROSS TO BE $75,000

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HILL, J. M., 1915 , SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN NE CALIF. AND NW NEV., USGS BULL 594

  • Deposit

    ROSS, D.L., 1961 , GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF MINERAL CO., NEV., NEV. BUREAU OF MINES, BULL 58

  • Deposit

    TELLURIDE CLAIMS, SANTE FE MINING DISTRICT,MINERAL COUNTY, QUADE SITE VISIT 4-19-89,NBMG UNPUBLISHED MINING DISTRICT FILES (TINGLEY FILES)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit RECENT ROAD BUILDING AND DOZING ABOVE THE OLD WORKINGS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1978 Fiebelkorn, J. B. (Stewart, J. H.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1991 Marcus, S. (Doebrich, 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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Authoritative Nevada resources

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