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Occaision Claim

Occurrence in Lyon 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. 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 10050842
MRDS ID N000328
Record type Site
Current site name Occaision Claim
Alternate or previous names NBMG # 4270

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.11042, 38.8913 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lyon(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Yerington NE(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Smith Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Walker(hydrologic unit)

Walker(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Lahontan(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 Lyon

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
12N 26E 19 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillic

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.11042, 38.8913
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike SHEAR STRIKING N 85 DEGREES W
    Dip 40-60 DEGREES TO THE SOUTH

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE VEIN HAS COPPER OXIDES COATING FRACTURES AND IN PLACES EXTENDING INTO THE ARGILLICALLY ALTERED GRANITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discoverer History Unknown

Mining district

District name Yerington

Comments on the workings information

  • PITS, DOZER-CUTS AND SMALL ADIT SOME OF THE AREA HAS BEEN DRILLED MANY YEARS AGO. MANY OF THE PROSPECTS ARE BULLDOZER CUTS THAT WERE DONE DURING THE ERA WHEN THAT TYPE OF WORK WOULD SUFFICE FOR ASSESSMENT.

Comments on development

  • EXTENSIVE DOZER CUTS AND PITS ALONG COPPER MINERALIZATION ; ECON.COM: UNKNOWN

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TELLURIDE CLAIMS,YERINGTON MINING DISTRICT,LYON COUNTY,QUADE VISIT SITE 6-29-89,NBMG UNPUBLISHED MINING DISTRICT FILES (TINGLEY FILES)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit COPPER MINERALIZATION EXPOSED IN SHEARS HOSTED IN GRANITE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1989 Doebrich, Jeff L. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUL-1991 Marcus, S. (Doebrich, J.) U.S. Geological Survey

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

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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