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Silver Reef Claim

Occurrence in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Gold
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Host and associated rocks
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Ore body information
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10045825
MRDS ID M233663
Record type Site
Current site name Silver Reef Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.41757, 38.29161 (WGS84)
Relative position POSSIBLY IN RAWHIDE MOUNTAIN AREA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tybo(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Warm Springs(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Hot Creek-Railroad 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 Nye

Comments on the location information

  • "10 MILES OF ROUGH ROAD FROM WARM SPRINGS, AND THEN A 2000 FT CLIMB TO THE TOP OF THE HOT CREEK RANGE" EXACT LOCATION UNKNOWN ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Secondary

Analytical data

Result HIGHGRADE ROCK CHIP ASSAYED 61.6 OZ/TON AG
Result TRACE AU.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.41757, 38.29161
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Tybo District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Mc Gillivary And Gastoni
    Home office Tonopah
    First year 1923

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 12.19M

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPED BY A 40-FT SHAFT IN 1923

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BLACKBURN, W.H., 1923, PRELIMINARY REPORT ON SILVER REEF CLAIM, HOT CREEK RANGE, NYE CO., NV: NBMG FILE 257, ITEM 5.

  • Deposit

    KRAL, V.E., 1951, NBMG BULL. 50.

  • Deposit

    FERGUSON, H.G., 1933, GEOLOGY OF THE TYBO DISTRICT, NEVADA: NBMG. BULL. 20.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SMALL PIPE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1982 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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Authoritative Nevada resources

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