Mccoy Prospect

Occurrence in Lyon county in Nevada, United States with commodities Molybdenum, Copper, Uranium
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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037660
MRDS ID M035828
Record type Site
Current site name Mccoy Prospect
Alternate or previous names Flyboy Nbmg # 4266

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.07209, 38.82241 (WGS84)
Elevation 1463
Relative position 10 MI. S-SW 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

Yerington SE(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 011N 026E 16 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Molybdenum Tertiary
Copper Tertiary
Uranium Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillization The Host Granite Has Been Altered To A Kaolinized Punky White.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.07209, 38.82241

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Several Persistent Fractures And Small Sheared Zones

Comments on the geologic information

  • SLAINS OF SECONDARY COPPER MINERALS AND SMALL AMOUNT OF SECONDARY URANIUM MINERALS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Yerington

Comments on the workings information

  • ADITS,DOZING AND TRENCHING APPROXIMATELY 50 FEET OF THE TOP OF A PROMINENT KNOB HAS BEEN DOZED FLAT, MAKING A TERRANCE WITH THE MATERIAL SPILLING OFF ALL SIDES.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SCHILLING, J. H., 1962 , AN INVENTORY OF MOLYBDENUM OCCURENCES IN NEV., NEV. BUREAU OF MINES, REPORT 2 .

  • Deposit

    BUTLER, J. N., 1958 , PHYSICAL BENEFICIATION OF LOW-GRADE URANIUM ORES, US ATOMIC ENERGY COMM, RMO-2683 .

  • Deposit

    TELLURIDE CLAIMS, YERINGTON MINING DISTRICT, LYON COUNTY, QUADE VISIT SITE 6-28-89, NBMG UNPUBLISHED MINING DISTRICT FILES (TINGLEY FILES).

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SEVERAL FRACTURES AND SHEAR ZONES HAVE BEEN EXSPOSED,REVEALING BLUE AND GREEN FRACTURE COATINGS OF COOPER OXIDES. QUADE REPORTED THAT HE DID NOT FIND ANY MOLYBDENUM NOR URANIUM AS HAD BEEN REPORTED EARLIER BY OTHER SITE INVESTIGATORS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1979 Fiebelkorn, J. B. (Stewart, J. H.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUL-1991 Marcus, S. (Doebrich, J.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Authoritative Nevada resources

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