Qacme Copper Mine

Occurrence in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, Silver
Sections on this page
  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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10045432
MRDS ID M233162
Record type Site
Current site name Qacme Copper Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.36234, 38.6327 (WGS84)
Relative position 6 MILES N. OF ACME

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Win Wan Flat(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Fish Lake-Soda Spring Valleys(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 Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 009N;009 032E;033E 21;;19,20 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • EXACT LOCATION IS UNCERTAIN

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary
Silver Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cerargyrite Ore
Chrysocolla Ore
Malachite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Hematite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Granitic Rocks
    Rock description Granitic Rocks
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Luning
    Rock description Luning

Nearby scientific data

(1) Phaneritic intrusive rocks

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENSES

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Bedding Planes

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Fitting District

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ROSS, D. C., 1961, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS IN MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA; NBMG BULL. 58

  • Deposit

    LINCOLN, 1923, MINING DISTRICTS AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF NEVADA; NEVADA NEWSLETTER PUBLISHING CO.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit COPPER MINERALS OCCUR IN STRINGERS AND SMALL LENSES REPLACING LIMESTONE ALONG BEDDING PLANES NEAR GRANITIC ROCKS.
Deposit REPLACEMENT OF LIMESTONE BY COPPER ORES IN THE FORM OF STRINGERS AND SMALL LENSES ALONG BEDDING PLANES. UTM LOCATION IS VERY APPROXIMATE, PLUS OR MINUS 1000M OR MORE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1981 Royse, Sue E. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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

External references

Authoritative Nevada resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.