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Bradshaw Property

Occurrence in Churchill 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. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10055074
MRDS ID RE00009
Record type Site
Current site name Bradshaw Property

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.03457, 39.93962 (WGS84)
Elevation 1707

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Churchill(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Dixie Hot Springs NE(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Carson Sink(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Reno(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Dixie Valley(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(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 Churchill

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 24N 35E 22 NE Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • IN UPPER PART OF WHITE ROCK CANYON ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Altered Diorite

Analytical data

Result SEAMS CONTAIN 7-10% FE AND 0.15-0.7 % CU

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Table Mountain District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL TRENCHES AND SHORT ADITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WILLDEN AND SPEED, 1974, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF CHURCHILL COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 83, P.84

  • Deposit

    PAGE, 1965, PRELIMINARY GEOLOGIC MAP OF A PART OF THE STILLWATER RANGE, CHURCHILL COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG MAP 28.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit WORKINGS EXPLORE ALTERED DIORITE CUT BY IRREGULAR SEAMS OF QUARTZ THAT CONTAIN ABUNDANT PYRITE AND SMALL AMOUNTS OF CHALCOPYRITE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1990 Skurski, M. (Marcus, Sue) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-1991 Moyer, Lorre A. (Marcus, S.M.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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