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Pyramid Ranch Claims

Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Gemstone, Mercury
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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. Geologic structures
  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 10047233
MRDS ID M242501
Record type Site
Current site name Pyramid Ranch Claims
Alternate or previous names NBMG Sample Sites 1971, 1972, 1973.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.00787, 37.67911 (WGS84)
Elevation 1600

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Dyer(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 002S 036E 17 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ACCESSIBLE VIA GOOD DIRT ROADS EAST OF DYER ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gemstone Primary
Mercury Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Turquoise Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    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) -118.00787, 37.67911
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Strong Deformation And Fracturing Of Sediments

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Dyer District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • SMALL OPEN PIT MINE AND EXTENSIVE BULLDOZING. EQUIPMENT, TRAILER AND NEW WORKINGS PRESENT IN MAY, 1984.

Comments on development

  • ACTIVE OPEN PIT MINE; TRAILER AND EQUIPMENT ON SITE IN 1984

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    QUADE, JACK, 1984, FIELD EXAMINATION, 5/17/84

  • Deposit

    NBMG BULL 78, 1972.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit QUARTZ VEINS SMALL CLOTS OF TURQUOISE WERE OBSERVED IN A DARK, GREY-BLACK, SHALE SAMPLE 1971 OF THIS MATERIAL RAN HIGH IN BA, CU AND V WITH LESSER AMOUNTS OF AS, CR, NI, Y. SAMPLE 1972 WAS TAKEN FROM HIGHLY ALTERED AND DISTORTED SEDIMENTS ALONG A FAULT STRUCTURE THAT YIELDED ANOMALOUS CU, NI, BA, AND ZN. SAMPLE 1973, TAKEN FROM A PROSPECT IN THE SAME CLAIM GROUP YIELDED ONLY LOW-GRADE MINERALIZATION. 2 OF THE 3 SAMPLES YIELDED SOME LOW AG VALVES, AND ALL WERE ANOMALOUS IN MERCURY.

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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