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Virginia Lode Claim

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, 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. 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. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10044482
MRDS ID M231926
Record type Site
Current site name Virginia Lode Claim
Alternate or previous names Gilbralter Mine, Patent No. 2487

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.83339, 36.8969 (WGS84)
Elevation 1158
Relative position SE SLOPE OF BONANZA MTN.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Beatty(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Beatty(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Death Valley(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Amargosa(hydrologic unit)

Northern Mojave(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 012S 046E 16 N2 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Uranium Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Silver Ore
Limonite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue

Analytical data

Result SCINTILLATION COUNTER = 0.15 MR/HR.

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.83339, 36.8969
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N25E
    Dip 80SE
    Length 0.3M
    Width 0.08M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Along A Fracture Zone.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Bullfrog District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF THREE TUNNELS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GARSIDE, L.J., 1973, RADIOACTIVE MINERALS OCCURRENCES IN NEVADA: NBMG, BULL. 81, P. 92.

  • Deposit

    RANSOME, F.L., ET AL, 1910, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE BULLFROG DISTRICT: USGS BULL. 407, P. 113-114.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SIX VEINS CAN BE RECOGNIZED

Reporter information

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

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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