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Cotton Wood Creek Prospects

Past Producer in Washoe county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, 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. Materials information
  8. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  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 10111465
MRDS ID M242562
Record type Site
Current site name Cotton Wood Creek Prospects

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.43991, 40.86655 (WGS84)
Elevation 1829
Relative position NEAR HEAD OF COTTONWOOD CREEK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Washoe(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

The Banjo(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Gerlach(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lovelock(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 034N;035N 022E;022E 01;36 N2 (01); SW OF SW (36) Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UTM IS TO ONE CENTRALLY LOCATED PROSPECT OF SEVERAL. . INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Copper Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore
Calcite Gangue

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 59
USGS model code 18b
Deposit model name Skarn Cu
Mark3 model number 8

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.43991, 40.86655
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Igneous Contact

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Deephole District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL SHALLOW SHAFTS AND PROSPECT PITS

Comments on development

  • ACCORDING- TO OLD RESIDENTS OF GERLACH, A SMALL AMOUNT OF SILVER ORE WAS PRODUCED FROM THESE OLD WORKINGS, BUT NONE WAS RECORDED. -LONG IDLE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BONHAM, H.F., JR., 1969, NBMG BULL 70, P. 60

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit WORKINGS IN A PENDANT OF RECRYSTALLIZED LIMESTONE. SMALL VEINS CONSISTING LARGELY OF A MIXTURE OF IRON OXIDES AND CALCITE WITH MINOR AMOUNTS OF MALACHITE AND NO VISIBLE SULFIDES

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1985 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-SEP-1994 Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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