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Lida Talcmine

Past Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Talc-Soapstone, Clay
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046797
MRDS ID M242007
Record type Site
Current site name Lida Talcmine
Alternate or previous names Fair Lady Talc

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.54203, 37.45828 (WGS84)
Elevation 2213
Relative position 3.0 MILES BY ROAD WEST OF LIDA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Magruder Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Last Chance Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Cactus-Sarcobatus Flats(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 005S 040E 33 SE Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ACCESSIBLE BY 1.9 MILES OF DIRT ROAD EXTENDING NW FROM NEVADA HIGHWAY 3. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Talc-Soapstone Primary
Clay Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ORE IS FINE-GRAINED, COMPACT, HOMOGENEOUS; LOCALLY SHEARED OR THOROUGHLY BROKEN

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chlorite Ore
Talc Ore
Quartz Gangue
Tremolite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Chloritization

Analytical data

Result ORE IS CHLORITE, SUBORDINATE TALC, MODERATE AMOUNT OF QUARTZ, MINOR CALCITE

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Mudstone
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Deep Spring
    Rock description Deep Spring

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.54203, 37.45828
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form ROUGHLY TABULAR
    Strike NE
    Dip 20 NW
    Thickness 3.35M
    Length 85.34M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1942
Discoverer William Mcbean, George Wood, And Elmer O'Berg

Mining district

District name Palmetto (Or Lida) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the production information

  • MOST PRODUCTION CAME FROM THE NORTHERN AREA.

Comments on the workings information

  • 20-FT ADIT, CAVED ADIT TO THE NW, 2 OPEN CUTS; 2 FLAT STOPES ACCESSIBLE BY ADITS

Comments on development

  • ORIGINAL OWNERS AND LATER LESSEES EXPLORED 2 MAIN MINERALIZED ZONES. IN 1960'S, AREA WAS CLAIMED BY MRS. FRANK SEMINARIO AS THE FAIR LADY TALC, AT WHICH TIME EXTENSIVE ROAD-BUILDING AND ROTARY DRILLING WERE DONE BY HUNTLEY INDUSTRIAL MINERALS, INC

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PAPKE, K.G., 1975, NBMG BULL 84, P. 19-21

  • Production

    PAPKE, K.G., 1975, P. 19-21.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE BODIES CONSIST OF SELECTIVELY REPLACED MUDSTONE BEDS, CONFORMABLE TO BEDDING.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1982 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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