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Limerick Canyon Prospect

Past Producer in Pershing county in Nevada, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Alteration
  9. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  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 10044135
MRDS ID M231480
Record type Site
Current site name Limerick Canyon Prospect
Alternate or previous names Empire Ground ?

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.20264, 40.3174 (WGS84)
Elevation 1878

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pershing(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Rochester(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Humboldt(hydrologic unit)

Humboldt(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 Pershing

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 028N 034E 06 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Tourmaline Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 273
USGS model code 36a
Deposit model name Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein
Mark3 model number 27

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metavolcanic Rock > Mafic Metamorphic Rock > Greenstone
    Rock unit name Limerick Greenstone
    Rock description Limerick Greenstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.20264, 40.3174
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.COM: NO QUARTZ VEINS SEEM TO BE FOLLOWED IN THE WORKINGS. ONLY CONTINUOUS STRUCTURES ARE THIN (SEVERAL CM THICK), SHEARED, MASSIVE PYRITE/TOURMALINE SEAMS WHICH ROUGHLY CLEAVAGE OF THE SCHISTOSE GREENSTONE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Rochester District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL SHORT ADITS AND ONE SHAFT NO QUARTZ VEINS SEEM TO BE FOLLOWED.

Comments on development

  • APPARENTLY INACTIVE IN 1984

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SCHRADER, F. C., 1918 ROCHESTER MINING DTRICT, NEVADA: IN USGS BULL.580

  • Deposit

    VIKRE, P. G., 1978, GEOLOGY AND SILVER MINERALIZATION OF THE ROCHESTER DISTRICT, PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA, PH.D. THESIS STANFORD UNIV.

  • Deposit

    NBMG STAFF, 1985, NBMG OFR 85-3

  • Deposit

    BONHAM, H. F., JR., 1984, FIELD EXAMINATION

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE ONLY CONTINUOUS STRUCTURES ARE THIN, SHEARED, MASSIVE PYRITE/TOURMALINE SEAMS THAT ROUGHLY PARALLEL CLEAVAGE OF THE SCHISTOSE GREENSTONE
Deposit SEVERAL SHORT ADITS AND ONE SHAFT. THE WORKINGS ARE WELL HIDDEN AND THE ORIGINAL ACCESS ROAD HAS BEEN ENTIRELY OBLITERATED BY SEASONALLY DEPOSITED FLUVIAL GRAVELS. PLANAR FISSILITY PRONOUNCED IN THE COUNTRY ROCK. SCHRADER DESCRIBES "EMPIRE GROUND" AS A QUARTZ VEIN IN GREENSTONE IN LIMERICK CANYON ALSO SUPPOSEDLY CONSISTING OF BARITE, TETRAHEDRITE, STIBNITE AND MOLYBDENITE IN THE VEIN. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT; 3 FIELD OBSERV

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1980 Royse, Sue E. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-MAY-1986 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

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