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Victory and Defense Prospects

Occurrence in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodity Manganese
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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. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10044356
MRDS ID M231760
Record type Site
Current site name Victory and Defense Prospects

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.28953, 38.28243 (WGS84)
Elevation 1783
Relative position 2 MILES SOUTH OF THE LIBERTY MINE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Liberty Springs(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tonopah(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

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 Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 005N 042E 20 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • APPROXIMATE LOCATION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Psilomelane Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.28953, 38.28243
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form SEAMS AND BUNCHES

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shearing

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name San Antone District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner E. M. And Mabel E. Booth
    Home office Tonopah

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KRAL, V.E., 1951, MINERAL RESOURCES OF NYE CO.: NEV. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOL., BULL. 50, P. 159

  • 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.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSIT OCCURS IN SHEARED TERTIARY RHYOLITE. ALSO, NODULAR MANGANESE FORMS A PLACER DEPOSIT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1980 Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAY-1982 La Pointe, D.D. (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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Authoritative Nevada resources

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