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Bad Apple Claims

Occurrence in Elko 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. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10047589
MRDS ID M242973
Record type Site
Current site name Bad Apple Claims
Alternate or previous names NBMG Sample Sites 1576 A & B

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.04925, 40.94462 (WGS84)
Elevation 2256
Relative position 0.5 MILES NORTH OF SWALES MOUNTAIN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Elko(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Swales Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Battle Mountain(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Winnemucca(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Humboldt(hydrologic unit)

Humboldt(hydrologic accounting unit)

Black Rock Desert-Humboldt(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 Elko

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 35N 53E 6 SE4 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Kaolinite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification, Kaolinization, Cu, Fe And Mn Oxidation

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Mudstone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.04925, 40.94462
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Roberts Mountain Thrust

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Igneous/Sediment Contact Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • ADIT VISITED IS IN CONTACT ZONE BETWEEN SILICEOUS, SILTY MUDSTONES OF THE ORDOVICIAN VININI FM. AND ALTERED TERTIARY QUARTZ PORPHYRY. THE SEDIMENTS OUTCROP ON THE SE SIDE OF THE PORTAL. THE VEDS STRIKE APPROXIMATELY N20E, 55SE AND ARE FRACTURED AND FE-STAINED. A WEATHERED PATCH OF INTRUSIVE ROCK IS EXPOSED NEXT TO THE SEDIMENTS. THE INTRUSIVE IS BEIGE IN COLOR, HAS A VERY FINELY CRYSTALLINE GROUNDMASS AND CONTAINS FINE BIOTITE CRYSTALS AND LARGE QUARTZ AND K-SPARY PHENOCRYSTS. THE PORPHYRY ON THE DUMP AND IN OUTCROP IS ALTERED. THE ALTERATION RANGES FROM KAOLINITIC TO SILICIC. SOME PIECES OF PORPHYRY FORM THE DUMPA RE BLEACHED AND SHOW RANDOM VEINLETS OF PUNKY FE AND MN OXS. SAMPLE 157A CONSISTS OF THE ALTERED SEDIMENTS WHICH CONTAIN CLOTS AND FINE VEINLETS OF CU AND FEOXS. SAMPLE B IS OF THE ALTERED INTRUSIVE FROM OUTCROP. BELOW THE WORKINGS ARE SEVERAL BOLD OUTCROPS OF FE-STAINED QUARTZ PORPHYRY. THERE ARE PROBABLY SEVERAL DIKES WHICH EXTEND FROM MAIN BODY INTO THE ADJACENT
  • SEDIMENTS NOT SHOWN ON GEOLOGIC MAP OF THIS AREA.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Swales Mountain District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Jon Scott

Comments on development

  • THREE ADITS, ONLY ONE OF WHICH WAS SAMPLED. SAMPLED ADIT IS CAVED AND TRENDS TO THE SW.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    OBSERVATION

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SAMPLE #1576A; DARK GREY SILICEOUS MUDSTONE/CHERT. SURFACES COATED BY CUOXS AND FEOXS. SOME SMALL VEINLETS OF MALACHITE. ROCK IS SLIGHTLY GOSSANY. SAMPLE #1576B; YELLOWISH, HIGHLY ALTERED GRANITIC TO QUARTZ MONZONITIC INTRUSIVE (DIKE?) WITH CIARSE QUARTZ AND FELDSPAR PHENOCRYSTS. FELDSPARS ARE COMPLETELY KAOLINIZED AND GROUND MASS IS HIGHLY FE STAINED.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1982 Smith (Bentz) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-OCT-1989 Taylor, J. U.S. Geological Survey

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