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Cleve Creek Prospects

Occurrence in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, Iron, Manganese, 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046624
MRDS ID M241814
Record type Site
Current site name Cleve Creek Prospects

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.58419, 39.2305 (WGS84)
Elevation 2070
Relative position 1.5 MILES NW OF CLEVE CREEK CAMPGROUND ON SOUTH SIDE OF CREEK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cave Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ely(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ely(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Spring-Steptoe 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 White Pine

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 016N 066E 19,20,29,30 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED-SECTIONS PROJECTED FROM THE SOUTH AND EAST ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Iron Primary
Manganese Critical Primary
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bornite Ore
Hematite Ore
Huebnerite Ore
Malachite Ore
Dolomite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
    Rock unit name Prospect Mountain Quartzite;Pioche Shale
    Rock description Prospect Mountain Quartzite;Pioche Shale

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.58419, 39.2305
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Comments on the geologic information

  • IN THIS AREA, ALLUVIUM AND COLLUVIUM HAVE A SLIGHTLY ANOMALOUS BASE-METAL CONTENT THAT EXTENDS EAST OF THE AREA OF THE PROSPECTS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Cleve Creek District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFTS, ADITS, SHALLOW INCLINE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit QUARTZ VEIN CONTAINS PYRITE, BORNITE, MALACHITE IN A LIMY BED IN THE PIOCHE SHALE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-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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