New Freiberg Project Part

Prospect in Lincoln county in Nevada, United States with commodities Barium-Barite, Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc
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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10198605
MRDS ID M241698
MAS/MILS ID 0320170490
Record type Site
Current site name New Freiberg Project Part
Alternate or previous names NBMG Sample Sites 1761 and 1762, Smelter Shaft ?
Related records 10046527

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Pit
Geographic coordinates: -115.58777, 37.92465 (WGS84)
Elevation 1951
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Worthington Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Timpahute Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Caliente(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Sand Spring-Tikaboo 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 Lincoln

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 001 N 057 E 29 NE Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Barium-Barite Critical Tertiary
Copper Tertiary
Lead Primary
Silver Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Anglesite Unknown
Barite Unknown
Calcite Unknown
Cerussite Unknown
Iron Oxides-Hydrated Unknown
Malachite Unknown
Manganese Ox-Hydrous Unknown
Pyrite Unknown

Nearby scientific data

Pit (1) -115.58777, 37.92465

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Field Value
    MAS Column # 1
    Type of Orebody #1 FISSURE VEIN
    Shape of Orebody #1 TABULAR
    Type of Orebody #2 SHEAR ZONE
    Shape of Orebody #2 TABULAR
    Primary mode of Origin HYDROTHERMAL
    Date of Last Modification 940127

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Prospect
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Freiberg District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Beam, T. And Manfras, B.
    Year 1983

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NV. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. BULLETIN 73, 1970,, P. 172.

  • Deposit

    NV. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. OFR OF84-1, 1984.

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES OPEN-FILE REPORT MLA 69-85, 1985.

  • Deposit

    NV. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. REPORT 46, 1991, P. 7-11.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 27-JAN-94 Wood U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Nevada resources

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