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Red Hill No. 2 Claim

Occurrence in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodity Gold
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Alteration
  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. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10044184
MRDS ID M231546
Record type Site
Current site name Red Hill No. 2 Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.52065, 38.61576 (WGS84)
Elevation 1890
Relative position JUST WEST OF FOURMILE SPRING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cloverdale Ranch(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ione Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Southern Big Smoky Valley(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Nye

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED TOWNSHIP AND RANGE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) The Tuff Is Bleached, Silicified, And Iron Oxide Stained.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff > Welded Tuff
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) Alluvium, undifferentiated
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Along A Calcareous Gougy Zone.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Cloverdale District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Dick, J. G. And Hempel, C. A.
    Home office Tonopah
    First year 1964

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF AN OPENCUT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KLEINHAMPL, F.J. AND ZIONY, J.I., GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF NORTHERN NYE CO.: NEV. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, BULLETIN, IN PRESS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1980 Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey

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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