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Air Anomaly No. 4

Occurrence in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodity Uranium
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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. Mineral occurrence model information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10044305
MRDS ID M231702
Record type Site
Current site name Air Anomaly No. 4
Alternate or previous names Hard Scrabble
Related records 10222543

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.89981, 38.85687 (WGS84)
Relative position 0.5 MILE NORTH OF THE HEAD OF RED ROCK CANYON.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Jefferson(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mount Jefferson(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Diamond-Monitor Valleys(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

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 011N 045E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ESTIMATED LOCATION TO WITHIN 0.5 MILE. UNSURVEYED TOWNSHIP AND RANGE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Tertiary

Analytical data

Result SAMPLES RANGE FROM 0.04 TO 0.13% U308.

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 155
USGS model code 25f
Deposit model name Volcanogenic U

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.89981, 38.85687
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N-E
    Dip 90

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Along A Vertical Breccia Zone.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Moores Creek

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A BLAST HOLE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GARSIDE, L.J., 1973, RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES IN NEVADA: NEV. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOL., BULL. 81, P. 87

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1980 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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