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Kinsey Claims

Past Producer in Lincoln county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Manganese, 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. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046522
MRDS ID M241693
Record type Site
Current site name Kinsey Claims
Alternate or previous names NBMG Sample Sites 1462, 1463, 1464 Probably Encompasses Area of Tempiute Silver Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.64254, 37.61829 (WGS84)
Elevation 2134

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 004S 056E 01,02 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UTM IS TO CENTRAL OF SEVERAL WORKINGS ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1982

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Copper Primary
Zinc Critical Secondary
Manganese Critical Tertiary
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore
Pyrolusite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification

Analytical data

Result SAMPLES 1462, 1463 AND 1464 CONTAIN 300-1000 PPM MN, 500 PPM AG, 200-1000 PPM AS, NO AU, 0-20 PPM BA, 150-200 PPM CD, 1000-5000 PPM CU, 0-10 PPM MO, 10,000-20,000 PPM PB, 2000-7000 PPM SB, 0-50 PPM SN, 10-50 PPM V, 5000-GREATER THAN 10,000 PPM ZN.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.64254, 37.61829
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Bedding Plane Faults

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N-S
    Dip 70E
    Thickness 2.13M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Bedding Plane Faults

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1865

Mining district

District name Tempiute District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET OF OLD WORKINGS, NOW MOSTLY OBLITERATED BY RECENT EXPLORATION WORK, DRILL HOLES, SURFACE SCRAPINGS.

Comments on development

  • WORKED IN 1880, DESERTED THEREAFTER WITH NO KNOWN ACTIVITY UNTIL RECENT EXPLORATION WORK; AREA EXTENSIVELY DRILLED, SURFACE SCRAPINGS, REMAINS OF OLD TEMPIUTE TOWNSITE. EXPLORATION PROBABLY OCCURRED 1981 OR SO.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SMITH, P. AND BENTZ, J., 1983, FIELD EXAMINATION REPORT, OCT. 4, 1983.

  • Deposit

    TSCHANZ, C.M. AND PAMPEYAN, E.H., 1970, NBMG BULL 73, PL. II.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MASSIVE TO SACCHROIDAL QUARTZ VEINS FOLLOWING BEDDING PLANE FAULTS. BRECCIA ZONE/QUARTZ FILLING UP TO 4 FT WIDE, SILICIFIED WITH SILICIFICATION DECREASING AWAY FROM VEIN/FAULT. MUCH OF VEIN/BRECCIA ZONE IS EXCAVATED, MANY WORKINGS FILLED WITH GROUND WATER. ARGENTIFEROUS SULFIDES OCCUR DISSEMINATED THROUGH BRECCIA QUARTZ VEIN. ORE MINERALS INCLUDE PYRITE, CHALCOPYRITE, GALENA, TETRAHEDRITE, SPHALERITE, HEMIMORPHITE, CERUSSITE, MALACHITE, AZURITE, WITH FE-MN-SB OXIDES. FAULT ZONE CONTINUES NORTHWARD BUT NO WORKINGS NOTED ALONG IT. POST-MINERALIZATION SILICA AND DENDRITIC PYROLUSITE COAT ALL ROCKS. FAULT ZONE OUTCROPS PROMINENTLY ALONG DRILL ROAD LEADING TOWARD SAMPLE SITE 1463. QUARTZ VEINS EXPOSED IN ROAD BETWEEN THE SAMPLE SITES ARE UP TO 2 FT WIDE WITH ADJACENT BRECCIA ZONE UP TO 7 FT WIDE. QUARTZ VEIN WEATHERS TO SPIDER WEB TEXTURE. OUTCROPPING BELOW LIMESTONE UNIT IS CONGLOMERATIC SANDSTONE WITH CLASTS SLIGHTLY ANGULAR TO ROUNDED, SLIGHTLY CALCAREOUS. DIPS OF BEDDING FAULTS STEEPEN
Deposit NORTHWARD AND CUT ACROSS BEDDING PLANES (PROBABLY PROMINENT NW-TRENDING FAULT SHOWN ON GEOL MAPS). AT SAMPLE SITE 1463, A VERTICAL SHAFT FOLLOWS A 70-E-DIPPING, NORTH STRIKING FAULT WITH CURVED FAU
Deposit Discovery Year: 1860'S

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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