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Section 10 Gold Prospect

Past Producer 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. Materials information
  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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10050864
MRDS ID N000351
Record type Site
Current site name Section 10 Gold Prospect
Alternate or previous names NBMG Sample Site #4294

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.28571, 39.34851 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lyon(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Churchill Butte(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
17N 24E 10 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Ore

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.28571, 39.34851
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N10E - N20E
    Dip 70 SW

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE ONLY VISIBLE MINERALIZATION IS PYRITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Churchill

Comments on the workings information

  • 2 PROSPECTS; ONE A PIT, THE OTHER A 15-FOOT SHAFT ON A QUARTZ & QUARTZ BRECCIA VEIN. THE PIT FOLLOWS A NEARLY PARALLEL VEIN WHICH ALSO CONSISTS OF QUARTZ & QUARTZ BRECCIA.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    QUADE, JACK, NBMG SAMPLE SITE #4294 VISIT, JULY 6, 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

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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