Unnamed Prospect

Past Producer in Washoe county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Iron
Sections on this page
  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. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10050786
MRDS ID N000105
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Prospect
Alternate or previous names NBMG Sample Site #3318

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.94351, 39.58656 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Washoe(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Verdi(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Reno(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Reno(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Truckee(hydrologic unit)

Truckee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Lahontan(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Washoe

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 20N 18E 22 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore
Tourmaline Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Epidotization, Albitization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Rock unit name Peavine Sequence
    Rock description Peavine Sequence
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.94351, 39.58656

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N30E (ZONE)
    Dip 90 DEGREES (ZONE)

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE BOXWORK MAY REPRESENT ORIGINAL PYRITE. THE TOURMALIZED ZONE IS LOCALLY CUT BY WHITE ALTERATION, POSSIBLY ALBITE. LOCAL BLEACHING OF THE ROCKS COULD BE DUE TO SUPERGENE ACID LEACHING. SIMILAR TOURMALINE OR TOURMALINE-MAGNETITE MINERALIZATION IS PRESENT ELSEWHERE ON PEAVINE PEAK. SPARSE MALACHITE IS PRESENT AT THIS LOCALITY; COPPER SULFIDES ARE PROBABLY PRESENT IN UNOXIDIZED ORE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Peavine

Comments on the workings information

  • BULLDOZER CUTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    UNNAMED PROSPECT, PEAVINE DISTRICT, WASHOE COUNTY, GARSIDE, L.J., SAMPLE SITE VISIT 8/4/83, NBMG UNPUBLISHED MINING DISTRICT FILES (TINGLEY FILES)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 1-3 M WIDE ZONE.
Deposit SAMPLE #3318 IS SELECT LIMONITE, MAGNETITE, SCHORLITE AND MALACHITE FROM A DUMP & PIT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1983 Garside, L. J. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-DEC-1991 Moyer, Lorre A. (Marcus, S.M.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Authoritative Nevada resources

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