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Bald Mountain Claims

Occurrence in Washoe county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Gold, Mercury, 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. Alteration
  9. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  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 10044925
MRDS ID M232562
Record type Site
Current site name Bald Mountain Claims
Alternate or previous names Nevada Guy, Lone Pine, Jim Bum, Amar, Nades Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.62187, 41.83486 (WGS84)
Elevation 1830
Relative position APPROXIMATELY 5 MILES SOUTH OF CHARLES SHELDON WILDLIFE REFUGE HEADQUARTERS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Washoe(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bald Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Vya(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Vya(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Massacre Lake(hydrologic unit)

Black Rock Desert(hydrologic accounting unit)

Black Rock Desert-Humboldt(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

FWS(Federal land areas administered by FWS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Washoe

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 045N}45N}45N}45N 021E}21E}21E}21E 09}10}15}15 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • SERIES OF CLAIMS WITH UTM TAKE FROM YELLOW PEAK ACCESSIBLE VIA NEVADA HIGHWAY 34A.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Primary
Mercury Primary
Uranium Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Mercury Ore
Silver Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification, Clay

Analytical data

Result .02 TO .06% HG.

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 177
USGS model code 27a
Deposit model name Hot-spring Hg

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.62187, 41.83486
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form VEIN, TABULAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1897

Mining district

District name Lone Pine District

Comments on the workings information

  • 4 CAVED ADITS, 2 SHAFTS, 5 CUTS, 36 PITS AND 60 TRENCHES

Comments on development

  • EARLY GOLD AND SILVER PROSPECTING FROM 1897 TO 1909 LED TO THE LOCATION OF 109 CLAIMS ON OR ADJACENT TO BALD MTN." 25 CLAIMS WERE LOCATED IN 1911 AND 1918. DISCOVERY OF MERCURY SOUTH OF THE REFUGE IN 1929 SPARKED PROSPECTING FOR IT WITHIN THE REFUGE. 30 CLAIMS WERE LOCATED FROM 1930 TO 1941. 140 CLAIMS WERE LOCATED DURING THE URANIUM BOOM YEARS OF 1954 AND 1955.

Reference information

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1981 La Pointe, D. D. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-JUN-1994 Humphries, S. E. (Moyer, L.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-SEP-1994 Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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