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Delamar Wash Workings

Occurrence in Lincoln county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046495
MRDS ID M241664
Record type Site
Current site name Delamar Wash Workings
Alternate or previous names NBMG Sample Site 1755.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.78667, 37.46025 (WGS84)
Elevation 1695
Relative position IN DELAMAR WASH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Delamar(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Clover Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Caliente(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Dry Lake Valley(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 006S 064E 02 NE OF NW Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification

Analytical data

Result NBMG SAMPLE 1755 CONTAINS 10% FE, 100 PPM MN, 2 PPM AG, 500 PPM BA, 50 PPM CU, 50 PPM PB, 500 PPM SB 70 PPM V, 100 PPM ZR.

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) -114.78667, 37.46025
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Delamar District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS ARE MOSTLY CAVED AND OF SMALL EXTENT. SAMPLED WORKING IS AN OPEN N10W-TRENDING ADIT. SHAFTS ARE POSSIBLY OLD PLACER WORKINGS

Comments on development

  • NO ACTIVITY AT TIME OF EXAMINATION IN 1983

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BENTZ, J. AND SMITH, P., 1983, FIELD EXAMINATION REPORT OF OCT. 2, 1983

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ADIT BEGINS IN RUBBLY ALLUVIAL SLOPE OF PROSPECT MOUNTAIN QUARTZITE. DUMP CONSISTS OF ROUNDED ALLUVIAL BOULDERS AND PEBBLES OF QUARTZITE AND SOME MINED ROCK WHICH CONSISTS OF ALTERED QUARTZITE. ALTERED QUARTZITE ON DUMP IS SILICIFIED (RECRYSTALLIZED) AND QUARTZ-VEINED. VEINS AND HOST ROCK CONTAIN CLOTS, VUGS AND FINE FRACTURE COATINGS OF LIMONITE AND MANGANESE OXIDES. SAMPLED QUARTZITE IS BRECCIATED AND RECEMENTED BY SUGARY OR COMB QUARTZ. QUARTZ CARRIES OXIDIZED PYRITE AND SPECKS OF DARK MINERAL, POSSIBLY MN OXIDES, AG OR OTHER SULFIDE. SOME JASPERY GOSSAN IS ALSO INCLUDED.

Reporter information

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

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