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Section 13 Shaft and Prospects

Occurrence in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodity Tungsten
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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. Alteration
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10050807
MRDS ID N000166
Record type Site
Current site name Section 13 Shaft and Prospects
Alternate or previous names NBMG # 3749

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.69929, 38.45964 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lucky Boy(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Excelsior Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Walker Lake(hydrologic unit)

Walker(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Lahontan(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
7N 26 13 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • NO ROADS AND VERY POOR ACCESS

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Alteration

  • (Local) Skarn Zone Is Limited

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) Felsic phaneritic intrusive rocks
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 65 DEGREES W
    Dip NEARLY VERTICAL

Comments on the geologic information

  • CONTACT ZONE INCLUDES BEDDED LIMESTONE AND SHALE IN CONTACT WITH TWO DIFFERENT GRANITIC ROCKS,ONE IS A DIORITE AND THE OTHER IS A GRANODIORITE.VERY LITTLE CONTACT MINERALS ARE PRESENT.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Lucky Boy

Comments on the workings information

  • A SHAFT AND PROSPECTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TELLURIDE CLAIMS, LUCKY BOY MINING DISTRICT,MINERAL COUNTY, QUADE SITE VISIT 6-2-89,NBMG UNPUBLISHED MINING DISTRICT FILES (TINGLEY FILES)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NARROW VEIN OF DIORITE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1989 Quade, Jack (Doebrich, Jeff) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-AUG-1991 Marcus, S. (Doebrich, J.) U.S. Geological Survey

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