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Vacation Mine

Past Producer in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodity Copper
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037593
MRDS ID M035587
Record type Site
Current site name Vacation Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.07594, 38.51048 (WGS84)
Elevation 1783
Relative position APPROX. 5.8 MI. EAST OF LUNING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sunrise Flat(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Walker Lake(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 008N 035E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • SW AND ADJACENT TO THE SILVER GUARDIAN MINE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.07594, 38.51048
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Thermal Fault Trending Northerly And Dipping 58 E

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Ore Occurs In The Fault Plane And Accompanying Small Fracture Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Santa Fe

Comments on the production information

  • UNDETERMINED, BUT CLARK F (1) ESTIMATES SEVERAL HUNDRED TONS MUST HAVE BEEN SHIPPED FROM THIS AND THE SILVER GUARDIAN PROPERTIES

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CLARK, C. W., 1922 , GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE SANTA FE DISTRICT, MINERAL CO, NEV., UNIV. OF CALIF. PUB., VOL. 14 , NO.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LITTLE JIMMY CLAIM IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THIS PROPERTY BUT NO INFO. AVAILABLE ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1979 Fiebelkorn, J. B. (Stewart, J. H.) U.S. Geological Survey

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