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Unnamed Prospect

Occurrence in Churchill county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Lead
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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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10043756
MRDS ID M231035
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.08207, 39.32797 (WGS84)
Relative position 2 MI NW OF WEST GATE APPROX

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Churchill(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

West Gate(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Fallon(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Reno(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Dixie Valley(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 Churchill

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 017N 03SE 19 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Tertiary
Lead Tertiary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.08207, 39.32797
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Westgate

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • SOME SILVER-LEAD ORE OCCURS IN MESOZOIC CARBONATE ROCKS ABOUT 2 MI NORTHWEST OF THE HIGHWAY AT WEST GATE, BUT THE ORE IS SO IRREGULAR THAT IT COULD NOT BE FOLLOWED ANY DISTANCE UNDERGROUND

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • 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-SEP-1980 Flynn, Patricia Dodd 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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