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Blue Jay Mine

Past Producer in Lyon county in Nevada, United States with commodity Copper
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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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037686
MRDS ID M035857
Record type Site
Current site name Blue Jay Mine
Alternate or previous names NBMG # 4239

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.0907, 38.98297 (WGS84)
Elevation 1463
Relative position APPROX. 5 MI. EAST 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 NE(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Lyon

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 013N 026E 20 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ESTIMATE LOCATION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Brochantite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Chlorite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillization, Sericitization (Large Amount )

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.0907, 38.98297
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Faulting

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Width 121.92M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zone,Porphyry Dike Forms Footwall Of The Ore Body

Comments on the geologic information

  • OXIDIZED MINERALS AT SURFACE, CHALCOPYRITE AT DEPTH COPPER MINERALIZATION OCCURS IN A SHEAR ZONE IN GRANIORITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Yerington

Comments on the production information

  • UNSPECIFIED PRODUCTION

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 137.16M

Comments on the workings information

  • LARGE OPEN PIT ATOP THE MOUNTAIN MAY HAVE REMOVED MOST OF THE OLD WORKINGS , WHERE A SHAFT AND DIFFERENT LOWER UNDERGROUND LEVEL WERE WORKED.

Comments on development

  • HISTORY: REFERENCES IN THE DATA ARE FROM 1910, SOME CURRENT ACTIVITY INCLUDES ONGOING ROAD BUILDING AND OCCUPIED LIVING FACILITY.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    RANSOME, F. L., MARCH 5 , 1910 , YERINGTON COPPER DISTRICT, MINING AND SCIENTIFIC PRESS.

  • Deposit

    MOORE, J. G., GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF LYON, DOUGLAS, AND ORMSBY CO., NEV. BUREAU OF MINES, BULL. 75 .

  • Deposit

    KNOPF, A., 1918 , GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE YERINGTON DISTRICT, USGS PROF. PAPER NO. 114 .

  • Deposit

    TELLURIDE CLAIMS, YERINGTON MINING DISTRICT, LYONS COUNTY,QUADE VISIT SITE 6-26-89, NBMG UNPUBLISHED MINING DISTRICT FILES (TINGLEY FILES).

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit METASOMATICVEIN
Deposit NEW COPPER KING CLAIMS MAY COVER THIS AREA SAMPLE SITE # 4239 15,000 CU ??? 200 W ???? ; 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.

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