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Lead King Claim Group

Past Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Lead, Copper
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10047213
MRDS ID M242479
Record type Site
Current site name Lead King Claim Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.39981, 37.95522 (WGS84)
Relative position 1 MILE END OF GENERAL THOMAS MINE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Paymaster Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Ralston-Stone Cabin 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 Esmeralda

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 001N 041E 08 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Calcite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result 2 ASSAYS RAN A TRACE OF GOLD, 3.7 AND 10.0 OZ/T AG AND 11.6 AND 15.1% PB.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Slate
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Harkless
    Rock description Harkless

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.39981, 37.95522
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR TO IRREGULAR
    Depth to bottom 12.19M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1921

Mining district

District name Lone Mountain District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Pat Daley, 1921

Comments on the workings information

  • 3 ADITS 200,100 AND 125 FT LONG; A SHAFT 65 FT DEEP AND AN INCLINED SHAFT 50 FT DEEP, AS WELL AS 8 CUTS ON SCATTERED VEINS

Comments on development

  • 4 CLAIMS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CARPER,A.F. 1921, UNPUBLISHED REPORT ON THE LEAD KING GROUP MINING CLAIMS; NBMG DISTRICT FILE 96, ITEM 2.

  • Deposit

    ALBERS,J.P. AND STEWART,J.H., 1972, NBMG BULL 78.

  • Deposit

    NBMG OFR 83-8, 83-11, 1983

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE WAS IN SURFACE POCKETS. THE VEINS DID NOT CONTINUE DEEPER THAN 40FT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1985 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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

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