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Blue Bell Prospect

Past Producer in Lincoln county in Nevada, United States with commodities Fluorine-Fluorite, Gold
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046525
MRDS ID M241697
Record type Site
Current site name Blue Bell Prospect
Alternate or previous names Steele, Piute Group. Nbmg Sample Location 1770 Nbmg Sample Location 1770

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.7317, 38.03828 (WGS84)
Elevation 2438
Location accuracy 500(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Badger Gulch(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Quinn Canyon Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lund(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

Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Lincoln

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 002N 056E 29 NW Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • VERY STEEP ACCESS THE LAST 0.5 MILE ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary
Gold Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Calcite Gangue
Chlorite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Kaolinization , Silicification, Silicification

Analytical data

Result FLUORITE AVERAGES ABOUT 20% CAF2

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Quartz Latite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.7317, 38.03828
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Fault

Ore body information

  • General form POD
    Strike EAST-WEST ; ALSO N-S; ALSO N-S
    Dip VERTICLE TO 70-80W TO 70-80W
    Length 45.72M
    Width 12.19M
  • General form POD
    Dip VERTICLE TO 70-80W TO 70-80W
  • General form POD
    Dip VERTICLE TO 70-80W TO 70-80W

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1952
Discoverer Joe & Milt Steele, And Bert Murphy

Mining district

District name Quinn Canyon District District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the workings information

  • PITS AND TRENCHES. E-W TRENDING BENCH ON N SIDE OF A VERY STEEP CLIFF. E-W TRENDING BENCH ON N SIDE OF A VERY STEEP CLIFF.

Comments on development

  • PROPERTY MAY HAVE SHIPPED A SMALL AMOUNT; NO ACTIVITY AT TIME OF EXAMINATION IN 1984.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PAPKE, K.G., 1979, FLUORSPAR OF NEVADA, NBMG, BULL 93, PG. 58

  • Deposit

    HORTON, R.C., 196U, AN. INVENTORY OF FLUORSPAR ORE IN NEV., NBMG, REPT 1. P.19

  • Deposit

    QUADE, JACK, 1984,FIELD EXAMINATION REPORT, MAY 31, 1984.

  • Deposit

    SAINSBURY, C. L. AND KLEINHAMPL, F. J., 1969, USGS BULL 1272-C, P.19.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit WEATHERING LEAVES A FLOURSPAR RIDGE UP TO 60 FT HIGH. 2-3 FT VEINS AND VEINLETS ARE FOUND WITHIN 150 X 40 FT ZONE. THE WORKINGS HAVE EXPOSED A POD OF HIGHLY BRECCIATED, STRONGLY SILICIFIED VUGGY VEIN MATERIAL CONTAINING GREEN-PURPLE FLUORSPAR. THE VEIN IS WITHIN A HIGHLY SILICIFIED CRYSTAL-LITHIC BRECCIA THAT FORMS BOLD OUTCROPS AND CLIFFS ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE DRAINAGE. SAMPLE 1770 WAS TAKEN ACROSS THE VEIN AND ASSAYED DETECTABLE GOLD. THE WORKINGS HAVE EXPOSED A POD OF HIGHLY BRECCIATED, STRONGLY SILICIFIED VUGGY VEIN MATERIAL CONTAINING GREEN-PURPLE FLUORSPAR. THE VEIN IS WITHIN A HIGHLY SILICIFIED CRYSTAL-LITHIC BRECCIA THAT FORMS BOLD OUTCROPS AND CLIFFS ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE DRAINAGE. SAMPLE 1770 WAS TAKEN ACROSS THE VEIN AND ASSAYED DETECTABLE GOLD.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1983 Lyles, B.F. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-JAN-1985 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) U.S. Geological Survey

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