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Black Butte Prospect

Occurrence in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodity Iron
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037623
MRDS ID M035682
Record type Site
Current site name Black Butte Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.34095, 38.6277 (WGS84)
Elevation 2195
Relative position APPROX. 12 MI. NW OF LUNING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Win Wan 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)

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 033E 19 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ESTIMATE LOCATION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • RICHEST ORE ACROSS 40 FT IS 40.0 % FE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hematite Ore
Magnetite Ore

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.34095, 38.6277
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form SMALL VEINS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Fitting

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Malatesta, Ferretta, Schuman, Rea
    Home office Hawthorne, Nv.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • TYPICAL SMALL CONTACT-METAMORPHIC DEPOSIT WITH LITTLE POTENTIAL AT DEPTH

Comments on the workings information

  • SURFACE SCRAPINGS AND SHORT ADITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    REEVES, SHAWE, KRAL, 1958 , IRON ORE DEPOSITS OF NEVADA, PART B., NEV. BUREAU OF MINES, BULL. 53

Reporter information

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

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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