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Yellow Jacket Prospect

Past Producer in Humboldt county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Arsenic
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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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10044967
MRDS ID M232617
Record type Site
Current site name Yellow Jacket Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.18792, 40.88489 (WGS84)
Elevation 1402
Relative position 25 MILES SW OF WINNEMUCCA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Humboldt(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gaskell(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Eugene Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Quinn(hydrologic unit)

Black Rock Desert(hydrologic accounting unit)

Black Rock Desert-Humboldt(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Humboldt

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 035N 034E 29 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Arsenic Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Silver Ore
Quartz Gangue

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 273
USGS model code 36a
Deposit model name Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein
Mark3 model number 27

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.18792, 40.88489
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Comments on the geologic information

  • GOLD AND SILVER-BEARING QUARTZ VEINS OF VARIABLE STRIKE AND DIP, LOCALLY CONTAIN MUCH ARSENIC.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Central District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • UNKNOWN AMOUNT

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 304.8M

Comments on the workings information

  • 6 ADITS, UP TO 250 FT. LONG

Comments on development

  • FORMERLY PART OF GOLDEN EAGLE GROUP

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    VANDERBURG, W. O., 1938, U.S. BUREAU OF MINES INFO. CIRC., RECONNAISSANCE OF MINING DISTRICTS IN HUMBOLDT CO., NEVADA

  • Deposit

    WILLDEN, R., 1964, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF HUMBOLDT CO., NEV; NEV. BUREAU OF MINES BULL 59.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 2 UNPATENTED CLAIMS
Deposit TWO UNPATENTED CLAIMS, FORMERLY PART OF THE GOLDEN EAGLE GROUP, DEVELOPED BY 6 ADITS UP TO 250 FT. LONG, AND TOTALLING ABOUT 1000 FEET. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1980 La Pointe, D. D. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
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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Authoritative Nevada resources

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