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Sulfur Prospect No. 1

Past Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Sulfur, Silica
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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 10046815
MRDS ID M242027
Record type Site
Current site name Sulfur Prospect No. 1
Alternate or previous names May Be Same As Edwin Giles Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.21035, 37.54995 (WGS84)
Elevation 1615
Location accuracy 500(meters)
Relative position ABOUT 12 MILES S OF GOLDFIELD, 400m To Mined Area

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ralston(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Goldfield(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 004S 042E 36 E2 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ABOUT 1.5 MILES NW OF THE RAILWAY STATION, ON SUMMIT OF AN OVAL HILL ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sulfur Primary
Silica Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Opal Ore
Sulfur Ore
Alunite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification, Bleaching By Solfataric Action

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff
    Rock unit name Siebert
    Rock description Siebert
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Volcanic Breccia (Agglomerate)

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Length 182.88M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1908

Mining district

District name Cuprite District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • PROSPECT PITS

Comments on development

  • A CAR OR TWO OF MATERIAL WAS SORTED AND SHIPPED FROM THE VARIOUS PROSPECTING PITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    RANSOME, F.L., 1909, USGS P.P. 66, P. 109-110

  • Deposit

    NBMG BULL 78, PL. 2.

  • Deposit

    BALL, S.H., 1907, USGS BULL. 308, P. 71.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit OVAL SHAPE, UNKNOWN THICKNESS. SULFUR LIES UNDER A CHALCEDONIC CAPPING

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-82 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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