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Chief of the Hills

Past Producer in Clark 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. 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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037137
MRDS ID M031005
Record type Site
Current site name Chief of the Hills
Related records 10246323

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.86026, 35.46029 (WGS84)
Elevation 1097
Relative position 3 MILES EAST OF SEARCHLIGHT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Clark(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Fourth of July Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Davis Dam(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Kingman(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Havasu-Mohave Lakes(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Clark

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
028S 064E 32 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.86026, 35.46029
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • VEIN MATERIAL IS BRECCIATED ANDESITE PORPHYRY CEMENTED WITH VUGGY COMB. QUARTZ; THE COUNTY ROCK IS EPIDOTIZED IN A BROAD ZONE PARALLELING THE VEIN. CAVITIES ARE PARTLY FILLED WITH GRAY CALCITE, SOME OF WHICH IS MANGANIFEROUS AND HAS AN ORANGE CAST.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Searchlight

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • SMALL RECORDED PRODUCTION FOR 1909 - 12 , 1917 - 19 , 1922 - 23 . ORE SENT TO CYRUS NOBLE MILL AND RIVERVIEW GOLD MINING AND MILLING CO.

Comments on the workings information

  • VEIN HAS BEEN DEVELOPED BY ADITS RATHER THAN SHAFTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CALLAGHAN, E., 1939 , GEOLOGY OF THE SEARCHLIGHT DISTRICT, CLARK CO., NEV. USGS BULL. 906 - D P. 184

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1979 Harner, Joy L. (Roberts, Ralph J.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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