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Granite Claims

Occurrence in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodity Tungsten
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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. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046615
MRDS ID M241802
Record type Site
Current site name Granite Claims
Alternate or previous names Granite #1-#4. Near Sayeed Locality #3

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.13307, 39.66772 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Blue Mass Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Kern Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ely(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Hamlin-Snake Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt 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 White Pine

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 021N 069E 25 NW Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • AT END OF ROAD UP MALLORY CANYON ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore
Muscovite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Some Bleaching

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Tungstonia Pluton
    Rock description Tungstonia Pluton
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.13307, 39.66772
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 0.36M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Igneous Contact

Comments on the geologic information

  • LIMESTONE SHOWS LOCAL COARSENING INTEXTURE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Eagle (Kern, Pleasant Valley, Tungstonia) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Paul Zakis

Comments on the workings information

  • SMALL HOLE ABOUT 8 FT DEEP, SMALL INCLINED SHAFT ABOUT 20 FT DEEP

Comments on development

  • INACTIVE AT TIME OF EXAMINATION IN 1980

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    JONES, R.B., 1980, FIELD EXAMINATION REPORT

  • Deposit

    SAYEED, U.A., 1973, PETROLOGY AND STRUCTURE OF THE KERN MTS. PLUTONIC COMPLEX, WHITE PINE CO., NV., AND JUAB CO., UTAH; UNIV. OF NEB. PHD. DISSERTATION

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit BOXWORK. UV LAMP SHOWS WHAT MAY BE A FEW GRAINS OF SCHEELITE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1983 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.

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