Poison Rock Claims East

Past Producer in Lyon county in Nevada, United States with commodity Gold
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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10050844
MRDS ID N000330
Record type Site
Current site name Poison Rock Claims East
Alternate or previous names NBMG # 4268

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.99986, 38.82658 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lyon(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Buckbrush Spring(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Walker Lake(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
11N 27E 7 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.99986, 38.82658

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • A SMALL CAVED SHAFT ON THE N 70 DEGREES W STRIKE OF THE IRON RICH RHYOLITE DIKE IN THE GRANITE. AREA HAS BEEN HEAVILY TRENCHED LOOKING ALONG THE STRIKE AND LATERALLY FOR MORE OF THE DIKE, STRUCTURE, AND VEINS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Yerington

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Johnson, Lee
    Home office Box 74, Longandale, Nevada 89021

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFT,PROSPECTS, AND TRENCHES THE AREA IS A MAZE OF NEW ROADS NOT SHOWN ON THE CURRENT MAPS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TELLURIDE CLAIMS, YERINGTON MINING DISTRICT, LYONS COUNTY,QUADE VISIT SITE 4-21-89, NBMG UNPUBLISHED MINING DISTRICT FILES (TINGLEY FILES)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE RHYOLITE AND GOUGE FROM THE STRUCTURE WAS SAMPLED (4268) FROM AN EXPOSURE IN A PIT

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Nevada resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.