1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Independence Claim Group

Occurrence in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Uranium, Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Iron
Map
XML
JSON
KML
B
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. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  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 10046844
MRDS ID M242060
Record type Site
Current site name Independence Claim Group
Alternate or previous names NBMG Sample Site 1954

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.31758, 37.23328 (WGS84)
Elevation 2012

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gold Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Last Chance Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Death Valley-Lower Amargosa(hydrologic unit)

Northern Mojave(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(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 Esmeralda

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 008S 043E -29 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UTM IS TO ABANDONED SHAFT ON CLAIM GROUP, WHICH COVERS A LARGER AREA. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Lead Secondary
Zinc Critical Secondary
Copper Tertiary
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Copper Unknown

Analytical data

Result BACKGROUND RADIOACTIVITY = 0.04 MR/HR
Result HIGH = 0.40 MR/HR.
Result SAMPLE 1954 OF VEIN MATERIAL WAS HIGH IN PB, ZN, AG, WITH LESSER SB, HG, AS, AND 9 PPM AU.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Siltstone
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Wyman Formation
    Rock description Wyman

Nearby scientific data

(1) Younger silicic ash flow tuffs
ListMap

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault, Gouge Zone ; Brecciation; Tactite Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Tokop (Gold Mountain) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • 750 FT OF ADIT, PLUS OTHER ADITS, SHAFTS, PITS

Comments on development

  • OLD WORKINGS FOR GOLD AND SILVER. AREA STAKED RECENTLY (1984)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GARSIDE, L.J., 1973, NBMG BULL 81, P. 53.

  • Deposit

    USBM, 1978, MILS DATA

  • Deposit

    QUADE, JACK, 1984, FIELD EXAMINATION, 4-8-84.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit RADIOACTIVITY IS REPORTED FROM GOUGE ZONES ALONG FAULTS . QUARTZ VEINS NEAR INTRUSIVE CONTACT. ALTERATION INDICATES NARROW TACTITE ZONE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1982 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-MAY-1985 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Maps centered on this site

Authoritative Nevada resources

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