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Locality No. 7

Occurrence in Washoe county in Nevada, United States with commodity Uranium
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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. Mineral occurrence model 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. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10095366
MRDS ID M029061
Record type Site
Current site name Locality No. 7

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.38074, 41.15404 (WGS84)
Elevation 1804

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Washoe(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Butte Spring(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

High Rock Canyon(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Vya(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Smoke Creek Desert(hydrologic unit)

Black Rock Desert(hydrologic accounting unit)

Black Rock Desert-Humboldt(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 Washoe

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 038N 023E 21 NW Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • SOUTH OF NEVADA HIGHWAY 34 APPROXIMATELY 1/4 MILE ON EAST FLANK OF GRANITE RANGE AND APPROXIMATELY 2 MILES SOUTHEAST FROM BIG HOG RANCH CREEK.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 155
USGS model code 25f
Deposit model name Volcanogenic U

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.38074, 41.15404
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form OTHER

Comments on the geologic information

  • ABNORMAL RADIOACTIVITY OCCURS IN A LARGE AMOUNT OF PETRIFIED WOOD IN LATE MIOCENE SEDIMENTARY ROCKS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Leadville District

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GARSIDE, LARRY J., 1973, RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES IN NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 81 P. 98

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ; MODEL NAME COULD ALSO BE: SANDSTONE U.
Deposit THIS RECORD HAS BEEN MERGED WITH M232559, WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1978 Walker, G. W. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1981 La Pointe, D. D. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-NOV-1990 Skurski, M. (Marcus, Sue) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-1993 Phinisey, J. D. (Marcus, S.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1993 Humphries, S. E. (Marcus, S.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-SEP-1994 Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

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