Dipper Patented Claims

Occurrence in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Zinc, Lead, Copper
Sections on this page
  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. Controls for ore emplacement
  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 10095751
MRDS ID M242472
Record type Site
Current site name Dipper Patented Claims
Alternate or previous names Dipper, Dipper 2, Dipper 3 Patented Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.41009, 37.98161 (WGS84)
Elevation 1838

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Paymaster Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Southern Big Smoky Valley(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Esmeralda

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 002N 041E 31 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ACCESSIBLE VIA PAYMASTER CANYON ROAD WEST FROM TONOPAH UTM IS TO WORKINGS ON THE CLAIMS ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Primary
Lead Secondary
Copper Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Smithsonite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Harkless
    Rock description Harkless

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N30W
    Dip 47 SW
    Thickness 2M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Lone Mountain District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFTS, PROSPECT PITS

Comments on development

  • M.S. 2595, PATENTED IN 1906 BY HERMAN REISCHKE. UNPATENTED CLAIMS SURROUND PATENTS TO NORTH AND SOUTH.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TINGLEY,J.V., 1979, FIELD EXAMINATION

  • Deposit

    ALBERS,J.P. AND STEWART,J.H., 1972, NBMG BULL 78.

  • Deposit

    NBMG OFR 83-8, 83-11, 1983

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SHEAR ZONES CUTTING META-LIMESTONE LENSE FORMS PROMINENT OUTCROP. LIMESTONE LENSES HAVE LOCALLY BEEN CONVERTED TO GARNET-EPIDOTE TACTITE. A GOSSAN FORMED ON THE ZONE CONTAINS FE OXIDES, CHRYSOCOLLA CHALCOCITE,MELACONITE. THIS SHEAR ZONE CROSS CUTS GARNET-EPIDOTE TACTITE. NW OF THE DIPPER 2 SHAFT, A SHALLOW SHAFT WAS SUNK ON A FLAT-DIPPING QUARTZ VEIN WHICH HAS BEEN CUT BY A NEAR-VERTICAL SHEAR ZONE. GRANITE IS CUT BY APLITE DIKES, THIN PEGMATITES AND DULL-WHITE QUARTZ VEINS. SOME PEGMATITES CONTAIN CONSIDERABLE K-FELDSPAR, AND ONE AREA HAS LARGE PSEUDOMORPHS OF LIMONITE AFTER PYRITE (UP TO 1 INCH ACROSS.)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1985 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Nevada resources

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