Unnamed Barite Deposit

Past Producer in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodities Barium-Barite, Lead, Copper
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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037615
MRDS ID M035655
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Barite Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.45289, 38.53798 (WGS84)
Elevation 1494
Relative position APPROX. 9 MI. EAST OF HAWTHORNE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Kinkaid(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Walker Lake(hydrologic unit)

Walker(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Lahontan(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 032E 19 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • 2 MI. WEST OF CRYSTAL MINE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Barium-Barite Critical Primary
Lead Tertiary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore
Galena Ore

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.45289, 38.53798

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form MASSES BRECCIATED LENSES
    Strike S 85 E
    Dip 72 N

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Hawthorne

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO SHORT ADITS IN NORTHERN AREA, SHALLOW CUT SEVERAL HUNDRED FT. SOUTH OF ADITS, SEVERAL HUNDRED FT. BEYOND THIS, A TRENCH TRENDING S 40 E AND 125' LONG

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ARCHBOLD, N. L., 1966 , INDUSTRIAL MINERAL DEPOSITS OF MINERAL CO., NEV. NEV. BUREAU OF MINES, REPORT 14

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1979 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.