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Shamrock Claim

Past Producer in New Zealand with commodities Gold, Platinum
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Workings at the site
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10038201
MRDS ID M045503
Record type Site
Current site name Shamrock Claim
Alternate or previous names Addison's, Mc Night's Claim, Carmody's Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: 171.49144, -41.87094 (WGS84)
Relative position 9 MILES S45W OF WEST PORT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

New Zealand(country)

Australia(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country
New Zealand

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Platinum Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Garnet Ore
Gold Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Sand and Gravel
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pleistocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) 171.49144, -41.87094
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Series Of Terraces

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: DISCONTINUOUS ELONGATE LENSES PARALLEL TO PLEISTOCENE SHORELINE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Buller-Mokihinui Subdivision

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall depth 21.34M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MORGAN, P.G., AND BARTRUM, J.A., 1915, BULLER-MOKIHINUI SUBDIVISION, GEOL. SURV. N.Z. BULL. NO. 17, P. 114-115

  • Production

    MORGAN AND BARTRUM (1915)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1974 Page, Norman J. U.S. Geological Survey

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

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