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Clipper Canyon Prospect

Occurrence in Churchill county in Nevada, United States with commodities Iron, Copper, Gold
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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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10043758
MRDS ID M231037
Record type Site
Current site name Clipper Canyon Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.2068, 39.81934 (WGS84)
Elevation 1524
Relative position CLIPPER CANYON, NORTH SIDE

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 034E 31 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Copper Secondary
Gold Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hematite Ore
Magnetite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Dip 40S

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Contact Between Diorite & Quartzite

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name White Cloud

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • THE ORE IS MOSTLY FAIR-GRADE IRON ORE RUNNING ABOUT 60% IRON AND 2% COPPER, AND IT CONTAINS A LITTLE GOLD. THE IRON ORE MINERALS ARE MAGDETITE AND HEMATITE. DRILL HOLES REACHED AN OXIDIZED MINERALIZED ZONE AT 160 FEET IN ONE LOCATION, AT ANOTHER LOCATION A SULFIDE ZONE WAS REACHED AT 145 FEET. THE PROSPECT OCCURS ON THE CONTACT OF DIORITE FORMING THE FOOTWALL ON THE NORTH AND TRIASSIC QUARTZITE FORMING THE HANGING WALL ON THE SOUTH

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SCHRADER, F.C., UNPUBLISHED REPORT ON THE CARSON SINK AREA, NEVADA, 1947: NBMG FILE

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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Authoritative Nevada resources

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