Goat Spring Prospect

Occurrence in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodity Copper
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. Alteration
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10045882
MRDS ID M233750
Record type Site
Current site name Goat Spring Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.87337, 39.37466 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

East Ely(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ely(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ely(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
017N 063E 3 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation, Silification.

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.87337, 39.37466

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike NW
    Dip 90

Comments on the geologic information

  • PRE PROSPECT MTN QTZITE IS HOST RX FOR CU MINERALIZATION WITHIN SHEAR ZONE. AREA MARKED BY BRECCIATED QTZITE WITH CU-OX.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name San Francisco

Comments on development

  • DIRT ROAD LEADS TO A SMALL PITTED AREA ON N&S SIDES OF ROAD. SOME DOZER CUTS & SM. PROSPECTS IN GENERAL AREA.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    OBSERVATION

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1982 Mohsen, Ahmed F. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Nevada resources

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