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Section 11 Shafts and Prospects

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10050858
MRDS ID N000344
Record type Site
Current site name Section 11 Shafts and Prospects
Alternate or previous names NBMG Sample Site # 4422

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.37238, 39.09851 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lyon(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lincoln Flat(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Carson City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Reno(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Carson(hydrologic unit)

Carson(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
14N 23E 11 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metavolcanic Rock

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.37238, 39.09851
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N70E SHEAR ZONE
    Dip VERTICAL VEIN
    Width 0.61M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Buckskin

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL SHAFTS, ONE ADIT, AND 5 PROSPECT PITS. THE LOWER MAJOR INCLINE WAS SUNK ON A N70E STRIKING SHEAR ZONE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    QUADE, JACK, NBMG SAMPLE SITE # 4422 VISIT, JULY, 12, 1989

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NBMG SAMPLE #4422 WAS TAKEN FROM THE EXPOSED VEIN NEAR THE BIG SHAFT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1989 Quade, Jack Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-NOV-1991 Moyer, Lorre A. (Marcus, S.M.) 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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