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Doty

Producer in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Copper, Gold
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10045668
MRDS ID M233457
Record type Site
Current site name Doty
Alternate or previous names Dotty Consolidated Nevada Metals

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.44558, 40.10743 (WGS84)
Elevation 2134
Relative position NEAR KINSLEY SPRING (EAST OF 17)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Chin Creek Spring(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Currie(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Elko(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Spring-Steptoe 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 White Pine

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 026N 068E 24 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Secondary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification, Silication

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 85
USGS model code 22c
Deposit model name Polymetallic veins
Mark3 model number 46

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Kinsley Stock
    Rock description Kinsley Stock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR, LENSES, PODS

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Steeply Dipping Faults

Comments on the geologic information

  • LIMESTONE OF CAMBRIAN AGE IS INTRUDED BY QUARTZ MONZONITE FAULTS WHICH DIP STEEPLY TO THE NORTH, EAST, AND WEST BUT ALL ROCK TYPES. PB-CU-AG-AU ORES OCCUR AS SMALL LEVER AND PODS ALONG THE THREE FAULT SETS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1909
Year of first production 1909

Mining district

District name Kinsley

Comments on the production information

  • SMALL PRODUCTION INCLUDED SOME GOLD

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 182.88M

Comments on the workings information

  • THE DOTY TUNNEL WAS EXTEND TO ABOUT 600 FT. IN 1948. THE AREA WAS CORE-DRILLED IN 19638 BUT NO ORE WAS FOUND.

Comments on development

  • FEE, PATENTED CLAIM. THE AREA WAS CORE-DRILLED IN 19638 BUT NO ORE WAS FOUND. THE AREA WAS MINED FOR PB-CU-AG-AU FROM 1909-1914, 1917, 1930 AND 1940-1945. IN 1948, THE DOTY TUNNEL WAS EXTENDED TO ABOUT 600 FT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SMITH, R.M.(1976) MINERAL DEPOSITS OF WHITE PINE CO., NV., NEV BUR. OF MINES BULL 85

  • Deposit

    USBM OF M.(ELKO) MILS NO 7, REP. NO. 3203300082, MINERAL PROPERTY FILE 21800

  • Production

    SMITH, R.M.(1976) P.56

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FAULT/VEIN
Deposit THE AREA WAS MINED FOR PB-CU-AG-AU FROM 1909-1914, 1917, 1930, AND FINALLY FROM 1940-1945. IN 1948 THE DOTY TUNNEL WAS EXTENDED TO ABOUT 600 FT. IN 1963 THE AREA WAS CORE DRILLED BUT NO ORE WAS FOUND. MINERAL SURVEY 1721 CONSISTS OF DOTTY, IDA LULL AND CARRIE MARIA CLAIMS ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

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

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