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Unnamed Deposit

Occurrence in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Aluminum, Potassium
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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. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10009263
MRDS ID D002134
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.64256, 36.94996 (WGS84)
Elevation 1280
Relative position 7 MI. ENE OF BEATTY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Beatty Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Beatty(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Death Valley(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper 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 Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 011S 048E 29 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • W FLANK OF YUCCA MTNS. SECTION LINES UNSURVEYED. SECTION INFERRED BY LINE EXTENSION.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Aluminum Critical Tertiary
Potassium Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • PROJECT 9350 - 01393 ALUNITE RESOURCES

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Alunite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Alunitization

Analytical data

Result FEW X - RAY AND CHEM ANALYSIS SHOW ALUNITE TENOR ABOUT 17 PERCENT IN MOST FAVORABLE AREA

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff > Welded Tuff

Nearby scientific data

(1) Younger silicic ash flow tuffs
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Thickness 36.58M
    Length 1524M
    Width 1524M

Comments on the geologic information

  • PERVASIVE HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; LOW-GRADE ALUNITIZATION OF VOLCANIC ROCKS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Large
Significant No
Discovery year 1944
Discoverer E. H. Bailey And D. A. Phoenix, Usgs

Mining district

District name Beatty (Yucca)

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • NO BASIS FOR ESTIMATING RESERVE
  • POTENTIAL RESOURCE ESTIMATE HIGHLY TENTATIVE BY R. B. HALL

Comments on the workings information

  • LOW GRADE ALUNITIZATION; EXTENT UNKNOWN

Comments on development

  • SCATTERED SURFICIAL PROSPECT WORKINGS FOR UNKNOWN MINERAL OR MINERALS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BAILEY, E. H., AND PHOENIX, D. A., 1944 , QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN NEVADA: UNIV. OF NEVADA BULL., VOL. 38 , NO. 5 , P. 143 .

  • Deposit

    CORNWALL, H. R., 1962 , CALDERAS AND ASSOCIATED VOLCANIC ROCKS NEAR BEATTY, NYE COUNTY, NEVADA: GEOL. SOC. AMERICA BUDDINGTON VOL., P. 357 - 371 .

  • Deposit

    CORNWALL, H. R., AND KLEINHAMPL, F. J., 1961 , GEOLOGY OF THE BARE MTN. QUADRANGLE, NEVADA: USGS MAP GQ-157 .

  • Deposit

    1950 DIREXPL PROSP. PITS

  • Deposit

    1960 GEOLMAP H. R. CORNWALL AND F. J. KLEINHAMPL: USGS MAP GQ-157

  • Deposit

    1974 RECON R. B. HALL: PROF. PAPER 1076-A

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SO FAR AS KNOWN, ALUNITIZATION IS LOW-GRADE BUT AFFECTS LARGE VOLUME OF TERT VOLCANIC ROCKS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 3 FIELD OBSERV

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1975 Hall, Robert B. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1978 Starritt, Bruce C. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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