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Placer Monazite

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10044338
MRDS ID M231738
Record type Site
Current site name Placer Monazite
Alternate or previous names Red Top Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.0637, 38.69132 (WGS84)
Elevation 2022
Relative position AT THE MOUTH OF KELSEY CANYON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Round Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ione Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Northern 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

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 010N 044E 29 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION UNCERTAIN

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Tertiary
REE Critical Tertiary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Copper Ore
Huebnerite Ore
Monazite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.0637, 38.69132
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GRAVEL CONSIST MOSTLY OF RHYOLITE FRAGMENTS AND GRANITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Round Mountain District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the workings information

  • NO INFORMATION

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GARSIDE, L.J., 1973, RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES IN NEVADA: NEV. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOL., BULL. 81, P. 88

Reporter information

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

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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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