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Holiday Uranium

Past Producer in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodities Uranium, Thorium
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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. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037610
MRDS ID M035640
Record type Site
Current site name Holiday Uranium
Alternate or previous names Falcon, Holly Daze, Jimmy Cricket

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.30151, 38.5727 (WGS84)
Elevation 1487
Relative position 8 MI NO 55 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

Indian Head Peak(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 008N 033E 10 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Thorium Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Thorite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Hydrothermal, Albitization

Analytical data

Result GRAB SAMPLE RANGE: 2.24 PPM TO SELECT DUMP MATERIAL - 17,800 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 Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.30151, 38.5727
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Local Faulting - Fracturing

Ore body information

  • General form FAULTED DIKE

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Concentrated Along Fracture Planes Disseminated In Gouge And Bleached Rock

Comments on the geologic information

  • PLUTONIC, LATE STAGE DIKE HOST ROCK ENVIRONMENT

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Fitting

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Edward Goldberg
    Home office Bremerton, Wa.

Comments on the workings information

  • SHORT ADIT, RAISE TO SURFACE, SMALL PITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    GARSIDE, L. J., 1973 , RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURENCES IN NEVADA, NEV. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, BULL. 81 .

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 6 TIMES BG ON OUTCROP TO 100 TIMES BG ON SELECT DUMP MATERIAL

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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