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La Plata Project

Prospect in Churchill county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, Molybdenum, Tungsten
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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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Mineral rights holdings
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10270461
MAS/MILS ID 0320010463
Record type Site
Current site name La Plata Project

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Claim
Geographic coordinates: -118.29956, 39.44461 (WGS84)
Elevation 1834
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Churchill(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

La Plata Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Fallon(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Reno(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Dixie Valley(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 Churchill

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 018 N 033 E 05 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary
Molybdenum Primary
Tungsten Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Claim (1) -118.29956, 39.44461
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name La Plata District

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Located Claim

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Phelps Dodge
    Interest 100
    Home office Arizona
    Year 1990

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    THOMPSON, R.J., AND BOLENEUS, D.E. MINERAL RESOURCE EVALU-

  • Deposit

    ATION AND SOCIOECONOMIC STUDY OF THE PROPOSED MASTER LAND

  • Deposit

    WITHDRAWAL AT NAVAL AIR STATION FALLON, CHURCHILL COUNTY,

  • Deposit

    NEVADA: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT FOR THE

  • Deposit

    U.S. NAVY, 1991, FIG. 4-3, P. 44.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 20-MAY-92 Thompson U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

  • Phelps Dodge — acquired by Subsidiary of Freeport-McMoRan (2007)
    Acquired by Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold in 2007 in what was then the largest mining-industry deal ever (~US$26 B).

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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