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Owen Prospect

Occurrence in Lyon 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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037657
MRDS ID M035820
Record type Site
Current site name Owen Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.0193, 38.66741 (WGS84)
Elevation 1707
Relative position 24 MI. SOUTH OF YERINGTON, NEV.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lyon(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pine Grove Spring(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Smith Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Walker(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 Lyon

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 009N 026E 01 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • NEARLY PURE EXCEPT FOR WHITE QTZ. AND RED HEMATITE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metavolcanic Rock

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.0193, 38.66741
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Length 91.44M
    Width 1.22M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Wilson - Pine Grove

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner H. D. Lewis, O. Hokanson
    Home office Thayne, Wy.
    First year 1953

Comments on the workings information

  • BULLDOZER CUTS, HAND TRENCHES AND SHORT ADIT

Reference information

Reporter information

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

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