Sunday Claims

Occurrence in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodity Uranium
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. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  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 10037507
MRDS ID M035433
Record type Site
Current site name Sunday Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.44262, 38.2441 (WGS84)
Elevation 1920
Relative position NW FRINGE LITTLE HUNTOON VALLEY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Little Huntoon Valley(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 JUNCTION OF 28,29,32,33 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ESTIMATE LOCATION 2.5 MI NW OF PINE CROW MINE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Torbernite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Secondary Mineralization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.44262, 38.2441

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form SEAMS

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: SEAMS LOCALLY CARRY EUHEDRAL CRYSTALS OF META-TORBERNITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Silver Star

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: COUNTS AS HIGH AS 0.2 MR/HR NEAR FACES, BACKGROUND, 0.06 MR/HR

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1978 Fiebelkorn, J. B. (Stewart, J. H.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Nevada resources

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