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Surprise No. 5 Claims

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Fullers Earth, 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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046578
MRDS ID M241763
Record type Site
Current site name Surprise No. 5 Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.62808, 36.90303 (WGS84)
Relative position ON WEST SLOPE BEATTY MNT.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Quartz Peak NW(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Indian Springs(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Las Vegas(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

DOD(Federal land areas administered by DOD)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 12S 47E 08 NW Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fullers Earth Primary
Gold Tertiary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff > Ash-Flow Tuff

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.62808, 36.90303
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR, BRANCHING
    Thickness 4.57M
    Length 30.48M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Bare Mnt.

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • SERIES SHALLOW ADITS, DOC HOLES AND TRENCHES.

Comments on development

  • A SMALL TONNAGE WAS PRODUCED BY SELECTIVE MINING AND SORTING

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SMITH, 1982, FIELD EXAMINATION, NBMG, 28 APR. 82.

  • Deposit

    PAPKE, K.G, 1970, NBMG BULL 76, P. 28-29.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MILK CHALCEDOMIC QUARTZ VEINS AND VEINLETS, CUT RHYOLITE, AND HAS MINOR FE STAINING THROUGHOUT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1983 Lyles, B.F. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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