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Section 12 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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10050860
MRDS ID N000346
Record type Site
Current site name Section 12 Shafts and Prospects
Alternate or previous names NBMG Sample Site #4423

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.3521, 39.09157 (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
Mount Diablo 14N 23E 12 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.3521, 39.09157
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE STRUCTURE CONTAINS VERY LITTLE MATERIAL OTHER THAN SILICIFIED GOUGE AND MYLONITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Buckskin

Comments on the workings information

  • MINOR PROSPECTS AND TWO VERY OLD SHAFTS. THE EASTERN SHAFT IS IN LIMESTONE AND THE WESTERN SHAFT IS IN ANDESITE. WORKINGS ARE SHALLOW.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    QUADE, JACK, NBMG SAMPLE SITE #4423 VISIT, JULY 12, 1989

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 PARSED HOST ROCK AND ASSOCIATED ROCK INFORMATION FROM OLD SINGLE VALUED FIELD TO NEW MULTIVALUED FIELD
Editor 27-APR-1995 Mosier, Dan 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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