Dart Prospect

Occurrence in Lander county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Mercury, Arsenic
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. Alteration
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10045256
MRDS ID M232951
Record type Site
Current site name Dart Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.90926, 39.63436 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lander(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Callaghan(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Simpson Park Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Millett(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Northern Big Smoky 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 Lander

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 020N 045E 03;04 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Mercury Secondary
Arsenic Critical Secondary

Alteration

  • (Local) Intense Iron Staining

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Chemical Sediment > Chert

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.90926, 39.63436

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • OCCURS IN A WINDOW IN THE UPPER PLATE OF THE ROBERTS MOUNTAINS THRUST.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1967
Discoverer Lyle F. Campbell

Mining district

District name Reese River District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TIOGLEY, J.V., 1968, DART PROSPECT (GOLD), LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA (UNPUB.): PERSONAL FILES OF J.V. TINGLEY, NBMG

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ANOMALOUS GOLD OCCURS AT OR VERY NEAR THE ROBERTS MOUNTAINS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1981 Flynn, Patricia Dodd Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Nevada resources

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