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Silica Claim

Occurrence in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silica, 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 10046945
MRDS ID M242175
Record type Site
Current site name Silica Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.23168, 39.67994 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Blue Mass Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Kern Mountains(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

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 White Pine

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 021N 068E 24 NE Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ROAD UP SMITH CANYON ON SOUTH SIDE OF KERN MOUNTAINS. PROPERTY IS ABOUT 200 YDS. UP THE N.E. OF THE ROAD ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silica Primary
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Huebnerite Ore
Muscovite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Tungstonia Pluton
    Rock description Tungstonia Pluton
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.23168, 39.67994
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 15.24M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1956
Discoverer Mrs. Ray(S)?, Lani?, (Other Names On Claim Notice Not Legible)

Mining district

District name Eagle (Kern, Pleasant. Valley, Tungstonia) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • MINOR PROSPECT PITS; REMAINS OF AN OLD STONE CABIN.

Comments on development

  • SECOND CLAIM NOTICE FOR 1972 FOR JEFF STEWARD. NO ACTIVITY AT TIME OF EXAMINATION IN 1980, STONE CABIN REMAINS ARE PROBABLY PRE-1900. FIRST WORK WAS PROBABLY FOR AU-AG.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    JONES, R.B., 1980, FIELD EXAMINATION OF 6-13-80

  • Deposit

    SAYEED, U.A., 1973, PETROLOGY AND STRUCTURE OF THE KERN MOUNTAINS PLUTONIC COMPLEX, WHITE PINE CO., NV, AND JUAB CO., UTAH; UNIV OF NEBRASKA PHD. DISS.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MASSIVE WHITE QUARTZ VEIN OR VEINS WITH FEW SPECKS OF HUEBNERITE (?)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-83 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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