Stalin's Present Prospect

Occurrence in Pershing county in Nevada, United States with commodity 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. 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 10042526
MRDS ID M060345
Record type Site
Current site name Stalin's Present Prospect
Related records 10222394, 10295170

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.19903, 40.41017 (WGS84)
Elevation 2060

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pershing(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Congress Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Humboldt(hydrologic unit)

Humboldt(hydrologic accounting unit)

Black Rock Desert-Humboldt(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 Pershing

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 029N 034E 06 SW OF SE Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • PREVIOUS QUAD DESIGNATION = UNIONVILLE (1954) 1:625000

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pitchblende Ore
Biotite Gangue
Chlorite Gangue
Diopside Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Hornblende Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result RADIOMETRIC DATA: SCINTREX,(4XBG) IN VEIN (20XBG) IN ADIT, MAY BE DUE TO RADON AND MASS EFFECT. SAMPLE OF ALTERED -RHYOLITE WALLROCK WITH DARK VEIN MATERIAL CONTAINS 533 PPM CU3-08.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.19903, 40.41017

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Shearing Parallel To Vein And Faint Flow Structures In Rhyolite.

Ore body information

  • Strike N30E
    Dip 90
    Thickness 1.83M
    Length 15.24M
    Width 12.19M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • RADIOACTIVITY OCCURS IN AND ALONG A 4 TO 10 INCH WIDE ZONE COMPOSED OF HORNBLENDE, DIOPSIDE, CHLORITE, BIOTITE, EPIDOTE, QUARTZ, DARK CALCITE, PITCHBLENDE, AND GUMMITE(?). AN INTRUSIVE CONTACT WITH METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS IS NEARBY, AND THE MINERALIZED BODY MAY BE A METAMORPHOSED CALCAREOUS ZENOLITH.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Rye Patch District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • DEPOSIT WAS EXPLORED BY A SMALL PIT AND TRENCH, A 63-FT ADIT, AND A 47-FT WINZE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, M.G., 1977, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 89

  • Deposit

    GARSIDE, L., 1973, RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES IN NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 81

  • Deposit

    NEFF, T. R., 1978, REPORT ON URANIUM OCCURRENCE

  • Deposit

    STAATZ, M. H., 1951, USGS TRACE ELEMENT MEM. REPT. TEM-223.

  • Deposit

    USAEC, 1952, RMO-927

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit RADIOACTIVITY OCCURS ALONG AND IN A 4-TO 10-INCH WIDE ZONE COMPOSED OF HORNBLENDE, DIOPSIDE, CHLORITE, BIOTITE, EPIDOTE, QUARTZ, DARK CALCITE, PITCHBLENDE, AND GUMMITE(?). AN INTRUSIVE CONTACT WITH METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS IS NEARBY, AND THE MINERALIZED BODY MAY BE A METAMORPHOSED CALCAREOUS ZENOLITH. SHEAR ZONE 0.5 MI FROM INTRUSIVE CONTACT WITH ROCKY CANYON PLUTON. VEIN MATERIAL IS EPIDOTE WITH MINOR URANINITE.
Deposit DEPOSIT WAS EXPLORED BY A SMALL PIT AND TRENCH, A 63-FOOT ADIT, AND A 47-FOOT WINZE ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT; 3 FIELD OBSERV

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1973 Johnson, Maureen G. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-MAY-1986 La Pointe, D. D. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-DEC-1980 Royse, Sue E. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-SEP-1994 Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.) 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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