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Dig A Little Claims

Occurrence in Lincoln county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, Iron
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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. Geologic structures
  13. Ore body information
  14. Controls for ore emplacement
  15. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  16. Mining district
  17. Land status
  18. Ownership information
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046454
MRDS ID M241619
Record type Site
Current site name Dig A Little Claims
Alternate or previous names Little Mountain Claims, NBMG Sample Location 784

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.32611, 37.63858 (WGS84)
Elevation 1835

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mosey Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Caliente(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Caliente(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Meadow Valley Wash(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 003S 068E 36 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chrysocolla Ore
Hematite Ore
Magnetite Ore
Malachite Ore
Chlorite Gangue
Diopside Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Greenockite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Bleaching, Silication

Analytical data

Result SAMPLE 784 CONTAINS 20% FE, 5000 PPM MN, 50 PPM AG, 2000 PPM CU, 200 PPM PB, 100 PPM SB, 100 PPM BA, 500 PPM SR, 1000 PPM ZN.

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 62
USGS model code 18d
Deposit model name Skarn Fe

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.32611, 37.63858
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Faults

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR LENSES
    Strike N20W
    Dip 75NE
    Thickness 0.91M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault/Shear Zone, Igneous Contact?; Fracture Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Little Mountain District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Moore, L. R. And Maeder, J. A. (Dig A Little Claims)
    Home office Caliente, Nv
    First year 1979
  • Type Owner
    Owner Little Mountain Claims: Golden Condor Mining And Exploration, Located By C. L. Cheney
    Home office 462 Sego Ave., Salt Lake City, Ut
    First year 1973

Comments on the workings information

  • MAIN WORKING IS A 40 FT DEEP SHAFT STEEPLY INCLINED TO THE E. A SHALLOW PROSPECT LIES ABOUT 30 FT NW OF THE SHAFT. PROSPECT SHOWN ON MAP SOUTH OF SHAFT IS AN E-W TRENDING ADIT ABOUT 60 FT IN LENGTH APPROXIMATELY 10 + YEARS OLD.

Comments on development

  • NO ACTIVITY AT TIME OF EXAMINATION IN 1983, EXCEPT FOR STAKING WITHIN PAST FEW YEARS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BENTZ, J. AND SMITH, P., 1983, FIELD EXAMINATION REPORT, AUG. 19, 1983

  • Deposit

    TSCHANZ, C.M. AND PAMPEYAN, E.H., 1970, NBMG BULL 73, P. 174-175, PL. 2.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PO4?, OR SOME OTHER MINERAL. SOURCE OF THE TACTITE IS UNKNOWN, AS NO SEDIMENTS WERE OBSERVED IMMEDIATELY NEAR THE SHAFT. HOWEVER, THE TACTITE WAS PROBABLY DERIVED FROM WITHIN THE SHEAR ZONE AND MAY I
Deposit MINERALIZED VEIN EMPLACED ALONG A SMEAR ZONE OR FRACTURE ZONE IN DIORITIC INTRUSIVE. ZONE HAS SHARP HANGING AND FOOTWALL CONTACTS AND CONTAINS IRREGULAR LENSES OF DARK RED-BROWN MATERIAL WHICH ARE MASSIVE MAGNETITE/HEMATITE PODS CONTAINED IN SILICATED GARNETIFEROUS VEIN MATERIAL. ADJACENT TO THE SHEAR ZONE, THE INTRUSIVE IS EPIDOTIZED AND, IN PLACES, BLEACHED. SAMPLES OF ALTERED INTRUSIVE ON THE DUMP TYPICALLY CONTAIN COARSE, IRREGULAR CLOTS OF MAGNETITE IN ADDITION TO COATINGS AND PODS OF MALACHITE AND CHRYSOCOLLA. SAMPLE 784 WAS COLLECTED FROM THE SMALL DUMP NEAR THE SHAFT. THE ROCK CONSISTS OF DENSE, DARK GREEN TO BROWN RED SILICATED TACTITE VEIN, COMPOSED OF CRYSTALLINE GARNET AND DIOPSIDE, CHLORITE AND EPIDOTE WHICH CONTAINS ABUNDANT IRREGULAR CLOTS OF MAGNETITE, IN ADDITION TO CRYSTALS OF OXIDIZED PYRITE, SURFACE COATINGS OF MALACHITE AND CHRYSOCOLLA AND AN UNIDENTIFIED PLATY METALLIC MINERAL. YELLOW-GREEN FINELY CRYSTALLINE SURFACE COATINGS ARE POSSIBLY GREENOCKITE (CDS?), FE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1984 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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