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Cougar Prospect

Occurrence in Lincoln 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. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046383
MRDS ID M241531
Record type Site
Current site name Cougar Prospect
Related records 10149217

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.21554, 37.31137 (WGS84)
Elevation 1554
Location accuracy 250(meters)
Relative position 8 MILES BY AIR NE OF CARP MINE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Jacks Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Clover Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Caliente(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Virgin(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(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 Lincoln

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 007S 070E 30 CENTER OF W Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ON THE EAST SLOPE OF A RIDGE JUST EAST OF THE W/4 CORNER OF SEC. 30

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore
Montmorillonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Bleaching, Iron-Staining, Argillization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Quartz Latite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Quartz Latite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.21554, 37.31137
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 0.3M
    Length 60.96M
    Width 60.96M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1974
Discoverer Gorman And Gerald Boen

Mining district

District name Viola District

Comments on the workings information

  • SHALLOW, HAND-DUG PROSPECT PITS

Comments on development

  • 2 CLAIMS LOCATED IN 1974 BY THE BOENS: MINOR SURFACE CPLORATION ONLY

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PAPKE, K.G., 1979, NBMG BULL 93, P.24

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ALTERED AND MINERALIZED AREA ABOUT 200 FT IN DIAMETER. ALTERED ROCK IS LIGHT COLORED BUT SLIGHTLY IRON-STAINED, FRIABLE, CONSISTING MOSTLY OF MONTMORILLONITE. MOST OF THE EXPOSED ROCK APPEARS TO BE TOO LOW GRDE TO BE CONSIDERED ORE. HIGHEST GRADE MATERIAL IS IN THE NORTHERNMOST PIT WHERE GEARKSUTITE IS CONCENTRATED IN A ZONE AT LEAST 1 FT WIDE WITH PROBABLE N-S STRIKE. THE FLUORITE IS VERY LIGHT GREY WITH A PURPLE TINT LOCALLY, AND OCCURS LOCALLY MOSTLY IN DISSEMINATED GRAINS LESS THAN 2MM IN DIAMETER. THE GEARKSUTITE FORMS NODULES AND VEINLETS BOTH LESS THAN 15 MM WIDE. THIS MINERAL IS WHITE, DULL AND VERY FINE-GRAINED, WITH A SUBCONCHOIDAL FRACTURE AND HARDNESS OF 2.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-84 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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