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Blue Star Claim

Occurrence in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodity Uranium
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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. Alteration
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037608
MRDS ID M035635
Record type Site
Current site name Blue Star Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.21595, 38.59853 (WGS84)
Elevation 1737
Relative position 6.7 MI NORTH, 19 DEGREES WEST OF LUNING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Luning(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)

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 009N 034E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • PROSPECT PIT AND ADIT 2.5 MI. WEST OF SANTA FE MINE EST. LOCATION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Alteration

  • (Local) Feox

Analytical data

Result GRAB SAMPLE RANGE: 5.56 PPM TO 385 PPM

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.21595, 38.59853
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form NARROW ZONE

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Near Contact With Granitic Rocks

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Santa Fe

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DURHAM, D. L., FELMLEE, J. K., 1980 , NATIONAL URANIUM RESOURCE EVALUATION, WALKER LAKE QUAD., CALIF. AND NEV., UNPUBL. REPORT

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 10 TO 15 TIMES BG IN PIT, 2 TO 3 TIMES BG LOCALLY

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1979 Fiebelkorn, J. B. (Stewart, J. H.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1980 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.

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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