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Tri-Metallic Mining Co. Property

Past Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Gold
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10044551
MRDS ID M232038
Record type Site
Current site name Tri-Metallic Mining Co. Property

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.22897, 37.50801 (WGS84)
Elevation 1585
Relative position 5.5 MILES SW OF RALSTON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ralston(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Cactus-Sarcobatus Flats(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 Esmeralda

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 005S 042E 14 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Primary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Copper Ore
Malachite Ore
Calcite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Intense Limonite Stained

Analytical data

Result ORE SHIPPED AVERAGE 7 OZ AU, 230 OZ AG, 19% CU.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Minor Faults

Ore body information

  • General form KIDNEY SHAPE
    Dip HORIZONTAL

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Cuprite District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A SHAFT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BALL, S.H., 1906, NOTES ON THE ORE DEPOSITS OF SOUTHWESTERN NEVADA AND EASTERN CALIFORNIA, IN EMMONS, S.F. AND ECKEL, E.C., ED., CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, 1905: USGS BULL. 285, P. 60.

  • Deposit

    BALL, S.H., 1907, A GEOLOGIC RECONNAISSANCE IN SOUTHWESTERN NEVADA AND EASTERN CALIFORNIA: USGS BULL. 308, P. 70.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1981 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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