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Silver Top #2 Claim

Occurrence in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodity Silver
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10095753
MRDS ID M242483
Record type Site
Current site name Silver Top #2 Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.54342, 38.02077 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gilbert SE(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(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 039E 13 PROJECTED FROM NORTH Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED AREA ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue
Pyrite Unknown

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Porphyry > Lamprophyre
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Reed Dolomite
    Rock description Reed Dolomite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.54342, 38.02077
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N50E
    Dip 85NW
    Thickness 1M

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

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Frank Lewis, Reno, Nevada
    First year 1979

Comments on the workings information

  • 2 ADITS, 1 SHAFT

Comments on development

  • CLAIM PATENTED BY JAMES H. MONTEATH IN 1911 (M.E. 4042)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TINGLEY,J.V., 1979, FIELD EXAMINATION

  • Deposit

    NBMG OFR 83-8,83-11, 1983.

  • Deposit

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

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit BRECCIATED VEIN COMPOSED OF LENSES OF PORCELANEOUS WHITE QUARTZ BRECCIA, WITH MANY OPEN VUGS. SOME FLECKS OF PYRITE ENCASED IN QUARTZ

Reporter information

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

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