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Little Jim Prospect

Occurrence in Churchill county in Nevada, United States with commodity Fluorine-Fluorite
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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. 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 10045402
MRDS ID M233116
Record type Site
Current site name Little Jim Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.09485, 39.46602 (WGS84)
Elevation 1600
Location accuracy 100(meters)
Relative position To Prospect Pit-Within #100m Df Prospect

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Churchill(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Wonder Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Fallon(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Reno(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Dixie Valley(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 Churchill

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 019N 035E 31 SW OF NW OF SW Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • IN WESTERN PART OF CLAN ALPINE MOUNTAINS, ON A RIDGE SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET WEST OF THE ROAD. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillization And Iron-Staining Of The Country Rock For Several Feet Outward From The Vein.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Dacite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.09485, 39.46602
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N40W
    Dip 70SW
    Width 0.3M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1952
Discoverer Roy Durbin; M.L. Plummer; C.P. Mccuskey-(Located The Claim)

Mining district

District name Wonder District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 10.97M

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFTS, PITS; 36-FT. LONG TRENCH

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PAPKE, K.G., 1979, FLUORSPAR IN NEVADA; N.B.M.G. BULL. 93. P. 17

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEIN MATERIAL CONSISTS OF VERY-LT. GREY FLUORITE, OCCURRING IN SLIGHTLY VUGGY AGGREGATES OF CRYSTALS, MOSTLY OF MEDIUM SIZE, AND SOME ALTERED COUNTRY ROCK.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-81 La Pointe, D. D. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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

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