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Huntley-Daniel Property

Occurrence in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, Gemstone, Molybdenum
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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. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10047054
MRDS ID M242296
Record type Site
Current site name Huntley-Daniel Property
Alternate or previous names Probably Same As Homestake Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.55232, 38.24104 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position General Location, General Location

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Crow Springs(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 004N;004N;005N;005N 039E;040E;039E;040E 35,36 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gemstone Secondary
Molybdenum Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Turquoise Ore
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Intense Alteration Associated With Shear Zones; Argillic, Silicic

Analytical data

Result EARLY SHALLOW DRILL HOLES ASSAYED UP TO 0.1% CU

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Chemical Sediment > Chert
    Rock unit name Excelsior
    Rock description Excelsior
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.55232, 38.24104
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Folding, Tilting, N-Nw Faulting

Ore body information

  • General form DISSEMINATED
    Length 609.6M
    Width 304.8M
  • General form DISSEMINATED

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Copper Queen Shear Zone; Star Shear Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Crow Spring District (Royston District)

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Lessee/Operator
    Owner Homestake Mining Co.
    First year 1963

Comments on development

  • 310 UNPATENTED MINING CLAIMS EXPLORED FOR PORPHYRY COPPER DEPOSITS BY GEOLOGIC MAPPING, MAGNETIC SURVEY, DRILLING. MINOR AMOUNTS OF TURQUOISE WERE PRODUCED IN EARLIER DAYS. NOT FAVORABLE FOR LARGE SUPERGENE-ENRICHED COPPER DEPOSIT, BUT FAVORABLE INDICATIONS FOR HYPOGENE COPPER MINERALIZATION.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ARCHBOLD, N.L., 1963, GEOLOGY OF THE HUNTLEY-DANIEL PROPERTY, CROW SPRING AREA, ESMERALDA COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG FILE 85, ITEM

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

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

  • Homestake Mining Co. — acquired by Subsidiary of Barrick Gold (2001)
    Operator of the historic Homestake Mine in South Dakota; acquired by Barrick Gold in 2001.

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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