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Bas Claims

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Barium-Barite, Stone, Dimension
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10103962
MRDS ID M231816
Record type Site
Current site name Bas Claims
Alternate or previous names Blue Bird Barite, Warm Springs Mine, Barite Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.38006, 38.19105 (WGS84)
Elevation 1817
Relative position WEST OF WARM SPRINGS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Warm Springs Summit(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Warm Springs(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Hot Creek-Railroad Valleys(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 Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 004N 050E 19 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Barium-Barite Critical Primary
Stone, Dimension Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Bleaching, Liesegang Rings

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Argillite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Devonian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Siltstone
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Chemical Sediment > Chert

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.38006, 38.19105
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form MASSIVE, POD, LAYERS ALSO AS CONGLOMERATE MATRIX, ROSETTES AND NODULES

Controls for ore emplacement

  • No Information

Comments on the geologic information

  • BARITE REPLACEMENT VEINS IN LIMESTONE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Tybo District; Warm Springs Area

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Geo Drilling Fluids, Inc.,; Roy A. Winder, Supt;1150 Lamoille Hgwy., Elko, Nv 89801.
    First year 1981

Comments on the production information

  • MINED BY THE MAX - DENSE CORP.

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF SEVERAL CUTS. OPEN PIT.

Comments on development

  • LISTED AS AN ACTIVE OPEN PIT BARITE MINE IN 1981 EMPLOYING 8 PERSONS. DURING BARITE MINING, DEVONIAN ARGILLITE AND SILTSTONE YIELDED MINOR AMOUNTS OF A NICELY BANDED, IRON-STAINED ORNAMENTAL STONE; SOME WAS USED FOR CARVINGS SOLD AT THE WARM SPRINGS STORE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HORTON, RC, 1963, AN INVENTORY OF BARITE OCCURRENCES IN NEVADA: NBMG REPT. 4

  • Deposit

    KLEINHAMPL, F.J. AND ZIONY, J.I., GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF NORTHERN NYE CO.: NEV. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, BULLETIN, IN PRESS.

  • Deposit

    STATE INSPECTOR OF MINES, 1982, REPORT OF MINE OPERATIONS ACTIVE IN NEVADA DURING CALENDAR YEAR 1981.

  • Production

    HORTON, 1963, P. 15

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1981 Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUN-1982 Lapointe, D.D. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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