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Higrade Group

Producer 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. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10044444
MRDS ID M231863
Record type Site
Current site name Higrade Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.68031, 38.12412 (WGS84)
Elevation 2515
Relative position 4.6 MILES W-SW OF ADAVEN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Badger Gulch(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 16 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • PROPERTY CONSIST OF SIX CLAIMS.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification Of Limestone

Analytical data

Result AVERAGE CONTENT IS 65% BY WEIGHT. FLUORITE COLOR IS GRAY-WHITE TO BRILLIANT PURPLE.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Conglomerate
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Pogonip Group
    Rock description Pogonip Group

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.68031, 38.12412
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 2.44M
    Length 36.58M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Near The Contact Of A The Basal Tuffaceous Conglomerate In A Thrust Plate Of Limestone. Near Ne-Trending Fault

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1957
Discoverer Sainbury And R.J. Claus

Mining district

District name Willow Creek District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on development

  • DRILLED BY UNION CARBIDE ORE CO IN LATE 1950'S, THEN RE-EXAMINED BY OTHER PARTIES AND MINED.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SAINSBURY, CL AND KLEINHAMPL, FJ, 1969, FLUORITE DEPOSITS OF THE QUINN CANYON RANGE: USGS BULL. 1272-C, P. 16-17

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FLUORITE INTERGROWN WITH SILICA TO FORM BANDED "COONTAIL" ORE. FLUORITE REPLACES LIMESTONE AND SILICIFIED LIMESTONE NEAR NE-TRENDING FAULT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1981 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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