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Montana - Yerington Mine

Past Producer in Lyon county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Gold, 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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037689
MRDS ID M035861
Record type Site
Current site name Montana - Yerington Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.22681, 38.9863 (WGS84)
Elevation 1646
Relative position APPROX. 3 MI. WEST 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(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 013N 025E 18 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Secondary
Gold Secondary
Iron Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Hematite Ore
Pyrite Ore

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.22681, 38.9863
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Vein Cut By Fault Trending N 20 E And Dipping 50 E

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike N 80 E
    Dip 55 S

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Ore Occurs In Short Stringers Or Small Lenses Of Solid Sulfides Within Shear Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Yerington

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • 10,744 DOLLARS GROSS YIELD MORE PRODUCTION PROBABLE IN LATER YEARS

Comments on the workings information

  • INCLINED SHAFT 300 + FT. IN LENGTH SLOPING 45 DEGREES, MULTIPLE LEVELS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KNOPF, A., 1918 , GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE YERINGTON DIST., USGS PROF. PAPER 114

  • Production

    COUCH, CARPENTER, 1943 , NEV. METAL AND MINERAL PROD.,UNIV. OF NEV. BULL., VOL. 27 , NO. 4

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit METASOMATIC

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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