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Granite Mountain

Occurrence in Washoe county in Nevada, United States with commodities Uranium, Thorium
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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. 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 10043830
MRDS ID M231114
Record type Site
Current site name Granite Mountain
Alternate or previous names Granite Peak

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.9474, 39.83128 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Washoe(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Granite Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Reno(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Reno(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Honey-Eagle Lakes(hydrologic unit)

North Lahontan(hydrologic accounting unit)

North Lahontan(hydrologic subregion)

California(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 Washoe

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 023N 018E 27 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Tertiary
Thorium Tertiary

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.9474, 39.83128
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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 Stateline Peak District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • A URANIUM-THORIUM BEARING PEGMATITE REPORTED FROM THIS AREA. GARSIDE (IN 1970) COULD NOT LOCATE THE OCCURENCE (GARSIDE, P 105)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    BONHAM H F, GEOL MIN DEPOSITS OF WASHOE-STOREY CO, NEV NBMG BULL 70, 1969.

  • Deposit

    SCHILLING, JH, URANIUM OCCURRENCES IN NEVADA, NBMG MAP 19, 1963

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1978 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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