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Black Horse Prospect

Occurrence in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodities Iron, Uranium
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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. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037622
MRDS ID M035681
Record type Site
Current site name Black Horse Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.34678, 38.64159 (WGS84)
Elevation 2042
Relative position APPROX. 13 MI. NW OF LUNING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Win Wan Flat(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Fish Lake-Soda Spring 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 Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 009N 033E 18 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ESTIMATE LOCATION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Tertiary
Uranium Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • SAMPLE ACROSS 15 FT CONTAINED 40.3 % FE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore
Uranophane Ore
Epidote Gangue

Analytical data

Result GRAB SAMPLE CONTAINED 0.87 PERCENT EU3O8 AND 1.08 PERCENT CU3O8

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 62
USGS model code 18d
Deposit model name Skarn Fe

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.34678, 38.64159
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Length 152.4M
    Width 60.96M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Ferruginous Zone Is Parallel To Conduct Of Intrusive Rock And Strike Of Sediments

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Fitting

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Henry A. Peterson
    Home office Hawthorne, Nv.

Comments on the workings information

  • EXTENSIVE BULLDOZER SCRAPINGS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    REEVES, SHAWE, KRAL, 1958 , IRON ORE DEPOSITS OF NEV., PART B, NEV. BUREAU OF MINES, BULL. 53

  • Deposit

    GARSIDE, L. J., 1973 , RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURENCES IN NEVADA, NEV. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, BULL. 81 .

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit BG = 0.01 MR/HR.; HIGH = 0.18 MR/HR.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1979 Fiebelkorn, J. B. (Stewart, J. H.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1980 Fiebelkorn, J. B. (Stewart, J. H.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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