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Big Jim Prospect

Occurrence in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodity Fluorine-Fluorite
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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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10044439
MRDS ID M231857
Record type Site
Current site name Big Jim Prospect
Alternate or previous names White Horse Claim Spar, Spar #1, Spar #2, Galena, Galena #1, Big Jim #1 Claims.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.67059, 38.13106 (WGS84)
Elevation 2438
Relative position NORTH QUINN CANYON RANGE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Nyala(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Quinn Canyon Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lund(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Sand Spring-Tikaboo 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 003N 056E 10 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • SW 1/4 OF SECT. 10. ESTIMATED LOCATION 1000 FT SW OF SPAR MINE; SEVERAL 100 FT NE OF ROCKET PROSPECT.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • FLUORITE IS PALE-PURPLE TO VERY-LIGHT-GRAY, CRYSTAL AGGREGATES.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification Of The Dolomite.

Analytical data

Result TWO SAMPLES TAKEN IN 1945 BY THE U.S. BUR. OF MINES ASSAYED ABOUT 93 % CAF2.SEVERAL ASSAYS RAN 74.86 % TO 94.41 % CAF2 ACROSS VEIN.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Quartz Latite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Devonian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.67059, 38.13106
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Faults

Ore body information

  • General form POD, IRREGULAR
    Dip W
    Thickness 2.13M
    Length 10.67M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • No Information

Comments on the geologic information

  • UNDERLYING MATERIAL IS A REPLACEMENT BRECCIA WITH FLUORITE MATRIX.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1934
Discoverer Joe Perkins

Mining district

District name Willow Creek District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Wood, Norman
    First year 1976

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 16 FT ADIT AND A 6 FT WINZE.SHALLOW PIT

Comments on development

  • THIS WAS THE FIRST KNOWN FLUORSPAR LOCATION IN THE DISTRICT. RELOCATED IN 1939 BY FRANK AND JOE PERKINS. MINING WAS IN PROGRESS IN THE EARLY 1970'S

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PAPKE, K.G., 1979, FLUORSPAR IN NEVADA: NEV. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOL., BULL. 93, P. 52.

  • Deposit

    GOULET, R.J., 1945, UNPUBLISHED REPORT ON BIG JIM FLUORSPAR MINE: NBMG FILE 262, ITEM 2.

  • Deposit

    KRAL,V.E., 1951, NBMG BULL 50.

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

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