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Anw Claims

Occurrence in Lincoln county in Nevada, United States with commodity Mercury
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046487
MRDS ID M241654
Record type Site
Current site name Anw Claims
Alternate or previous names Perhaps Includes Pa, Pb, Pc, Pd Placer Claims
Related records 10173946

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.74448, 37.54607 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tempiute Mountain South(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Timpahute Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Caliente(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Sand Spring-Tikaboo 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 Lincoln

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 005S 055E 01 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • AS MANY AS 60 CLAIMS S AND W OF THE ANDIES MINE. UTM IS TO APPROXIMATE CENTER OF THIS CLAIM BLOCK ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972; PREVIOUS QUAD DESIGNATION = TEMPIUTE MOUNTAIN (1964) 1:625000

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Prospect Mountain Quartzite
    Rock description Prospect Mountain Quartzite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.74448, 37.54607
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1965
Discoverer A.D. Thompson And D.F. Miller

Mining district

District name Don Dale District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL LONG, VERY SHALLOW BULLDOZER CUTS, REPORTED DRILLING OF UNKNOWN EXTENT, AND IP GEOPHYSICAL WORK

Comments on development

  • STAKED IN MID TO LATE 1960'S WHEN PRICE OF MG WAS HIGH. MOST WERE LOCATED AND EXPLORED BY D.F. MILLER FOR THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC PRODUCTION CO., BUT THE LATEST RECORDED WORK, DONE IN 1970, WAS FOR LEBER MINING CO.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MERCURY DEPOSITS OF NEVADA, UNPUB. MANUSCRIPT, NBMG

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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