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Oswell Property

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Mercury, Lead, Copper, Silver, Zinc
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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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040490
MRDS ID M055296
Record type Site
Current site name Oswell Property
Alternate or previous names Oswald Property
Related records 10173608

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.97644, 37.80023 (WGS84)
Elevation 1829
Relative position 5 MI NW OF INTERSECTION OF HWY 25 AND NYE AND LINCOLN COUNTY LINE , 6 MI SE OF CEDAR SPRINGS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Black Top(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Timpahute Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Caliente(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Hot Creek-Railroad Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(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 Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 002S 053E 26 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED TOWNSHIP; SOUTHERN QUINN CANYON RANGE ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :PUBLIC DOMAIN

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary
Lead Tertiary
Copper Tertiary
Silver Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Chalcocite Unknown
Galena Unknown
Malachite Unknown
Smithsonite Unknown

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 177
USGS model code 27a
Deposit model name Hot-spring Hg

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Nopah (Windfall) Formation
    Rock description Nopah (Windfall) Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.97644, 37.80023
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Fault

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault Zone (In Contact With Quartzite)

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: QUARTZITE INTRUDED BY ANDESITE DIKES

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1938
Discoverer Mrs. Katherine Oswald Of Tonopah

Mining district

District name Queen City District (Kawich)

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION: 14 LB HG FROM 1400 LB ORE

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 200 FT ADIT, SEVERAL SHALLOW SHAFTS AND SOME TRENCHING.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BAILEY, E. H., U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, PERSONAL FILES

  • Deposit

    BAILEY AND PHOENIX, 1944, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 41

  • Deposit

    KRAL, 1951, MINERAL RESOURCES OF NYE COUNTY, NEVADA NBMG BULL. 50

  • Deposit

    CORNWALL, 1972, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF SOUTHERN NYE COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 77

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1974 Bergquist, Joel R. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1980 Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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