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Piper Prospect

Occurrence in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Gold
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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. 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 10047145
MRDS ID M242397
Record type Site
Current site name Piper Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.81259, 37.55911 (WGS84)
Elevation 2118
Relative position ABOUT 2.9 AIRMILES N 80 W FROM BM 6880 AT OASIS DIVIDE.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Oasis Divide(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(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 004S 037E 25 NE OF SE Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ABOUT 2 MILES S 65 W FROM THE CHLORIDE PROSPECT. UTM IS TO ONE OF SEVERAL PROSPECT PITS ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Palmetto Pluton
    Rock description Palmetto Pluton
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Palmetto
    Rock description Palmetto

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.81259, 37.55911
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 1.52M
    Length 3218.6M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Contact Of Granite With Calcareous Strata

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Windy Pah (Fesler) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • PROSPECT PITS

Comments on development

  • 2 CLAIMS LOCATED WEST OF THIS POINT AND 6-7 CLAIMS TO THE EAST, COVERING THE LEDGE FOR A LENGTH OF OVER 2 MILES (1906)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SPURR, J.E., 1906, USGS P.P.55 P.85-90.

  • Deposit

    NBMG BULL. 78, P. 72.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit QUARTZ VEIN ALONG CONTACT OF GRANITE WITH CALCAREOUS STRATA

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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