Air Anomaly No. 4

Occurrence in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodity Uranium
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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10222543
MRDS ID M231702
MAS/MILS ID 0320230512
Record type Site
Current site name Air Anomaly No. 4
Alternate or previous names Hard Scrabble
Related records 10044305

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Pit
Geographic coordinates: -116.88012, 38.85323 (WGS84)
Elevation 3353
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Jefferson(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mount Jefferson(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Diamond-Monitor Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 012 N 045 E 26 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ONE MILE SOUTH OF MOORE CREEK ROAD; 0.5 MILE NORTH OF HEAD OF RED ROCK. INCLUDED IN P.C. NOS. 1-165 CLAIM GROUP (0320231085) BY EXXON (1980), WHICH WAS ALSO KNOWN AS THE PICNIC PROJECT. BILL KOHLMOOS, RENO, NV, PROSPECTOR, LOCATED HARDSCRABBLE IN 1978. 9 SAMPLES COLLECTED BY NORANDA MINING CO. IN 1978 SHOW 10 TIMES OR MORE BACKGROUND URANIUM.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Nearby scientific data

Pit (1) -116.88012, 38.85323

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Moores Creek Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES & GEOLOGY, BULLETIN 81, 1973, P. 87.

  • Deposit

    U.S. ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION PRELIMINARY REPORT 3654, 1956.

  • Deposit

    U.S. ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION RME-2055.

  • Deposit

    KLEINHAMPL, F. J., AND ZIONY J. I. , 1984, MINERAL RESOURCES

  • Deposit

    OF NORTHERN NYE CO., NV: NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES & GEOLOGY

  • Deposit

    BULLETIN 99B, P. 22.

  • Deposit

    AREAS OF DEVELOPMENT INTEREST IN THAT PART OF THE TOQUIMA

  • Deposit

    RANGE, NEVADA, ADMINISTERED AS TOIYABE NATIONAL FOREST.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 27-FEB-95 Schmauch, Steven W. U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Nevada resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.