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So. Section 7 Prospect

Occurrence in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Molybdenum
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037635
MRDS ID M035777
Record type Site
Current site name So. Section 7 Prospect
Alternate or previous names NBMG # 4202

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.78235, 38.47381 (WGS84)
Elevation 2377
Relative position 8 MI SW OF HAWTHORNE IN WASSUK RANGE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Corey Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Excelsior Mountains(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 007N 029E 07 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • NEAR HEAD OF CORY CANYON

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Molybdenum Primary

Alteration

  • (Local) Quartz Veins Wioth Sulfides On The Dumps??

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.78235, 38.47381
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • THERE IS NO VEIN EXPOSURE AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE ADIT. THE HOST ROCK FOR THE VEINS IS A DEEPLY WEATHERED GRANITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Mount Grant

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Comments on the workings information

  • A LARGE ADIT IS CAVED BUT LOOKS TO HAVE CROSS-CUT THE VEIN. A LARGE ADIT WITH DUMP THAT IS COMPLETELY OVERGROWN AND NOT SHOWN ON THE MAP. SOME UPPER WORKINGS ARE SHOWN AS A PROSPECT.

Comments on development

  • THESE MINES DATE FROM THE 1870'S ; ECON.COM: MAY HAVE BEEN SOME PRODUCTION AS LOCAL MILL HAS TAILINGS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TELLURIDE CLAIMS, MOUNT GRANT MINING DISTRICT, MINERAL COUNTY, QUADE VISITS SITE 6-27-89,NBMG UNPUBLISHED MINING DISTRICT FILES (TINGLEY FILES)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SOME ORE APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN PROCESSED IN THE SMALL MILL TO THE NORTH. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1978 Fiebelkorn, J. B. (Stewart, J. H.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1991 Marcus, S. (Doebrich, J.) U.S. Geological Survey

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