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Unnamed Copper Prospect No.2

Past Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodity Copper
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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. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10047221
MRDS ID M242489
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Copper Prospect No.2

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.4962, 37.93911 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Paymaster Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(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 001N 040E 16 PROJECTED FROM SOUTH Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED AREA ACCESSIBLE BY GRADED DIRT ROAD. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Garnet Gangue
Pyrite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silication

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Marble
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Skarn (Tactite)
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Mule Springs;Campito
    Rock description Mule Springs;Campito

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.4962, 37.93911
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Faults

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N10E
    Dip NEAR 90
    Width 10M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault,Either Thrust Or Normal

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Lone Mountain District; Weepah District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 100M

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO SHAFTS (ONE APPROXIMATELY 100M DEEP), SEVERAL DOZER CUTS, ONE DIMOND DRILL HOLE

Comments on development

  • ESTIMATED FEW TONS CU ORE PRODUCED. ONE DIAMOND DRILL HOLE ON PROPERTY, WITH SOME EXPLORATION ACTIVITY WITHIN PAST FEW YEARS (1979)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ALBERS,J.P. AND STEWART,J.H., 1972, NBMG BULL 78.

  • Deposit

    BONHAM,H.F.,JR., 1979, FIELD EXAMINATION, 10/24/79

  • Deposit

    NBMG OFR 83-8,83-11, 1983.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit TACTITE ZONE IN LIMESTONE ALONG CONTACT BETWEEN MULE SPRINGS AND CAMPITO FM. FAULT SHOWN AS THRUST BY ALBERS AND STEWART, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE A HIGH ANGLE NORMAL FAULT. TACTITE IS PREDOMINANTLY GARNET WITH DISSEMINATED PYRITE AND CHALCOPYRITE, LARGELY OXIDIZED. SOME SULFIDE REPLACEMENT OF MARBLE. ESTIMATED GRADE OF TACTITE ZONE IS +1% CU.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1985 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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