NBMG Sample Location 1712

Occurrence in Lincoln county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  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 10046509
MRDS ID M241679
Record type Site
Current site name NBMG Sample Location 1712
Related records 10246393

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.11944, 37.88247 (WGS84)
Elevation 2042

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Deer Lodge Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Caliente(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Caliente(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Escalante Desert(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(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 001S 070E 02 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED TOWNSHIP AND RANGE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Silver Ore
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Pyrite Unknown

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification

Analytical data

Result SAMPLE 1712 CONTAINS 200 PPM MN, 150 PPM BA, 20 PPM PB, 1000 PPM SR, 50 PPM ZR.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Volcanic Breccia (Agglomerate)
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.11944, 37.88247

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Breccia Zone(?)

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Eagle Valley District

Comments on the workings information

  • ONE SHAFT APPROXIMATELY 100 FT DEEP, OPEN. OLD HOMESTEAD AT SITE

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, SEPT. 14, 1983

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MOST OF ROCK ON DUMP IS RHYOLITE; ALSO SOME SPHERULITIC GLASSY MATERIAL AND LIGHT GREEN PHENOCRYST-POOR JASPERY RHYOLITE. SOME OF THE RHYOLITE SHOWS CLOTS OF PARTIALLY OXIDIZED PYRITE. QUARTZ VEIN AND BOTRYDIDAL OPALINE VEIN MATERIAL WAS ALSO FOUND ON DUMP, BUT NOT IN ABUNDANCE. RHOLITE FLOW AND ASH MATERIAL IS SILICIFIED. MINOR ANDESITIC VOLCANIC ROCK IS FOUND AS FLOAT AND ON DUMP. QUARTZ VEIN AND QUARTZ-CEMENTED VOLCANIC BRECCIA WAS SAMPLED FROM DUMP. THE QUARTZ VEIN IS WHITE, PRISMATIC WITH ABUNDANT VUGS AND OPEN CENTERS FILLED WITH IRON-STAINED EUHEDRAL QUARTZ. FINE (HAIRLINE), VITREOUS AND GREEN OPALINE VEINLETS CUT ACROSS MAIN VEIN. VEIN BRECCIA CONTAINS SILICIFIED VOLCANIC ROCK FRAGMENTS, CLOTS OF OXIDIZED, VERY FINE-GRAINED PYRITE AND FINE-GRAINED CRYSTALS OF UNIDENTIFIED STEELY GREY MINERAL, WHICH MAY BE A SILVER MINERAL, VEIN VIEN IS COATED AND VEINED BY LIMONITE AND MINOR MN OXIDES. POSSIBLY SOME ADULARIA WITH QUARTZ ALSO.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1984 La Pointe, D.D. (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

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