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Unnamed Iron Prospect

Past Producer in Churchill county in Nevada, United States with commodity 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. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10043752
MRDS ID M231030
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Iron Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.21958, 39.81462 (WGS84)
Relative position RANGE FRONT NORTH OF FONDAWAY CANYON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Churchill(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Fondaway Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Carson Sink(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Reno(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Carson Desert(hydrologic unit)

Carson(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 Churchill

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 023N 033E 36 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hematite Ore
Magnetite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.21958, 39.81462
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Contact Between Quartzite & Granitic

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Shady Run

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • THE LODE STRIKES NORTH-SOUTH IN QUARTZITE AND SEEMS TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE CONTACT BETWEEN THE QUARTZITE AND UNDERLYING INTRUSIVE GRANITE. DUMP MATERIAL INDICATES THAT THE DEPOSIT CARRIES MAGNETITE-HEMATITC MATERIAL OF GOOD GRADE. THE DEPOSIT IS PROBABLY OF MAGMATIC ORIGIN. THE ORE IS MASSIVE AND HAS AN IRREGULAR FRACTURE; SOME OF IT IS POROUS OR VESICULAR. IT IS ESTIMATED THAT THE DEPOSIT CONTAINS SEVERAL THOUSAND TONS OF FAIR-GRADE IRON ORE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SCHRADER, F.C., UNPUBLISHED REPORT ON THE CARSON SINK AREA, NEVADA, 1947: NBMG FILES

  • Deposit

    WILLDEN, RONALD, & SPEED, R.C., 1974, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF CHURCHILL COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL 83.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1980 Flynn, Patricia Dodd Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-SEP-1988 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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

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