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Blue Bell Claims

Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodity Gemstone
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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. Geologic structures
  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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046651
MRDS ID M241844
Record type Site
Current site name Blue Bell Claims
Alternate or previous names NBMG Sample Site 1281

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.53371, 38.32993 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Outlaw Springs SE(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Southern Big Smoky Valley(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 Esmeralda

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 006N 040E 31 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gemstone Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Turquoise Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Mudstone
    Rock unit name Excelsior
    Rock description Excelsior
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.53371, 38.32993
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Shear Zones, Fractures
Type of structure Regional
Structure description Fracture Zone

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zones, Fractures

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE MAIN PROPERTY WAS NOT EVALUATED, BUT SEVERAL N 50 E TRENDING EXPLORATION PITS SOME IN LIGHT GREY, FINE-GRAINED, SILICEOUS MUDSTONE (SILTSTONE?), WHICH FOLLOWED A SHEAR ZONE WERE SAMPLE AND DESCRIBED. MOST ROCK WAS SILTY, ALMOST QUARTZITIC, HIGHLY FRACTURED AND COATED WITH FE-MN STAINS, GREEN TO BLUE TURQUOISE INFILLED FRACTURES AND OPEN SPACES IN GOUGE/BRECCIA. YELLOWISH POWDERY OXIDES COATING.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No

Mining district

District name Crow Springs (Royston)

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Blue Diamond Mining Co.
    First year 1982

Comments on the workings information

  • MAIN PART OF DISTRICT HAS BEEN MAPPED FOR MORE THAN 70 YEARS, CONSISTING OF SEVERAL SHAFTS, ADITS AND SURFACE WORKING.

Comments on development

  • FULLY DEVELOPED AND PRODUCING MINE, CARE TAKER ON PREMISES, TRAILERS, ELECTRICITY ETC.; TOTAL PRODUCTION MORE THAN $ 5 MILLION. BEGAN PRODUCTION PRIOR TO 1915 AND LAST OPERATED IN 1940'S. . ACTIVE MINE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SMITH/BENTZ, 1982, FIELD EXAMINATION (SEPT 23, 1982)

Reporter information

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

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