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Section 24 Shaft

Occurrence in Mineral 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. Alteration
  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. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10092969
MRDS ID N000318
Record type Site
Current site name Section 24 Shaft
Alternate or previous names NBMG # 4252

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.8004, 38.53936 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Grant(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Walker Lake(hydrologic unit)

Walker(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Lahontan(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

DOD(Federal land areas administered by DOD)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
8N 28E 24 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • THE ROAD WAS BUILT TO THE EAST OF THE MAIN NORTH-SOUTH ROAD TO WORK THESE PROPERTIES.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Alteration

  • (Local) Whitish-Tan,Hydrothermallly Altered Meta-Sediments Silicified Gouge

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.8004, 38.53936
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form FISSURE VEINS
    Width 1.22M

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE MINERALIZATION IS RESTRICTED TO QUARTZ STRINGERS AND CONSISTS OF COPPER OXIDES AND SULFIDES WITH POSSIBLE GOLD.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Mount Grant

Comments on the workings information

  • A SINGLE SHAFT AND PROSPECTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TELLURIDE CLAIMS, MOUNT GRANT MINING DISTRICT, MINERAL COUNTY, QUADE VISITS SITE 6-27-89,NBMG UNPUBLISHED MINING DISTRICT FILES (TINGLEY FILES)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THESE WORKINGS MAY HAVE PRODUCED SOME ORE BUT THEY DO NOT FIT ANY OF THE KNOWN PROPERTY DESCRIPTIONS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1989 Doebrich, Jeff L. Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries
Updater 01-JUL-1991 Marcus, S. (Doebrich, J.) U.S. Geological Survey

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