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Lucky Day Claim

Occurrence in Pershing county in Nevada, United States with commodity 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. Alteration
  9. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10047391
MRDS ID M242681
Record type Site
Current site name Lucky Day Claim
Alternate or previous names Southernmost Part of Friday Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.52706, 40.32184 (WGS84)
Elevation 2012
Relative position 0.5 MILE S OF BADGER MINE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pershing(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Needle Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Fish Creek Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Winnemucca(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Dixie 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 Pershing

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 028N 040E 06 SW Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • PANNING OF A COMPOSITE SAMPLE GRABBED FROM A DOZEN PLACES IN THE BULLDOZED AREA YIELDED A FEW GRAINS OF CINNABAR.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Local Bleaching Or Iron Staining Along Fracture Zones.

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 177
USGS model code 27a
Deposit model name Hot-spring Hg

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff
    Rock unit name Fish Creek Mountains Tuff
    Rock description Fish Creek Mountains Tuff
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff
    Rock unit name Koipato Group
    Rock description Koipato Group

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.52706, 40.32184
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fracture Zones

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1964
Discoverer Clyde Garrett For Meador

Mining district

District name Mount Tobin District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner K. N. Meador
    First year 1976

Comments on the workings information

  • RECTANGULAR GRID OF BULLDOZER CUTS

Comments on development

  • EXPLORATION DONE IN LATE 1960'S CONSISTS OF A RECTANGULAR GRID OF BULLDOZER CUTS FROM NEAR TOP OF RIDGE DOWN SOUTHERN SIDE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BAILEY, E.H., RYTUBA, J.J. AND JONES, R.B., 1984, UNPUBLISHED DATA ON HG DEPOSITS OF NEVADA.

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, M.G., 1977, NBMG BULL 89, PL. I.

  • Deposit

    NBMG STAFF, 1985, NBMG OFR 85-3.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1986 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-SEP-1994 Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

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