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Montana Claim

Occurrence in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodity Mercury
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Sections on this page
  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. Controls for ore emplacement
  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 10046902
MRDS ID M242129
Record type Site
Current site name Montana Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.23066, 37.84911 (WGS84)
Elevation 2149

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Davis Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Benton Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Mariposa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Fish Lake-Soda Spring Valleys(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 001S 034E 17 SW OF SW Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • NORTH OF MOUTH OF MIDDLE FORK OF CHIATOVICH CREEK ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.23066, 37.84911
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N-S
    Dip 90
    Width 4.57M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Breccia Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1931

Mining district

District name Fish Lake Valley (White Mountain) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • CUT, ADIT

Comments on development

  • NO ACTIVITY AT TIME OF EXAMINATION IN AUG 1982. CLAIM NOTICE WITH "MONTANA CLAIM" DATED 1931

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TINGLEY, J.V., 1982, FIELD EXAMINATION OF 15 AUGUST 1982

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit N-S VERTICAL STRUCTURE CUTS SILICIFIED BRECCIATED QUARTZITE. VEIN-GOSSAN HAS LENSES OF WHITE QUARTZ WITH STREAKS OF DARK QUARTZ CONTAINING DISSEMINATED SULFIDES. FRACTURED WALLROCK HAS YELLOW-BROWN LIMONITE ON HAIRLINE FRACTURE SURFACES; STREAKS OF CHALCEDONIC QUARTZ LACE WALLROCK IN SOME AREAS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1982 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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