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Gold Pirate Lode

Past Producer in Lander county in Nevada, United States with commodities Lead, Gold, Silver
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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. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10044851
MRDS ID M232466
Record type Site
Current site name Gold Pirate Lode

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.2215, 40.32684 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lander(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

McCoy(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Fish Creek Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Winnemucca(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Reese(hydrologic unit)

Humboldt(hydrologic accounting unit)

Black Rock Desert-Humboldt(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 Lander

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 028N 042E 02 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Gold Tertiary
Silver Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cerargyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Pyrite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Limestone Has Been Pyrometasomatized By The Diorite

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Cane Springs Formatio
    Rock description Cane Springs Formatio

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Diorite Intrudes The T2 Cane Spring Limestone

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR, PODS, IRREGULAR MASSES
    Length 30.48M
    Width 30.48M

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE DEPOSITS FORM SMALL PODS OF A FEW TONS AND LARGE IRREGULAR MASSES SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET IN DIMENSION, ALONG NORTH TRENDING VERTICAL FRACTURE ZONES IN HIGHLY ALTERED DIORITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Mccoy

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    STAGER, H.K. (1977) GEOLGOY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF LANDER CO., N.B.M. BULL 88

  • Deposit

    SCHRADER F.C. (1934) THE MCCOY MINING DISTRICT, LANDER CO. NEV., USGS CIRC. 10

  • Deposit

    MCKLEE E.H. & STEWART J. (1968) GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE MCLOY QUDRANGLE, USGS OPEN-FILE MAP.

  • Production

    STAGER, H.K., 1977

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1980 Kirkham, Richard A. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

External references

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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