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Copper Basin Group

Producer in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, 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. Controls for ore emplacement
  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 10037256
MRDS ID M031217
Record type Site
Current site name Copper Basin Group
Related records 10296561

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.5395, 39.93881 (WGS84)
Elevation 2743

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Big Bald Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Newark Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ely(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Little Smoky-Newark 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 White Pine

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
24N 57E Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chrysocolla Ore
Malachite Ore
Pyrolusite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.5395, 39.93881
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Located Along A Fault

Comments on the geologic information

  • ALTERED AND MINERALIZED ZONE AT SURFACE IS 20 FEET WIDE, AT DEPTH 40 FT

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Bald Mtn (Joy Or Ruby Mtn

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Simonson And Hannon
    First year 1916

Comments on the production information

  • SMALL SHIPMENTS OF ORE WERE MADE IN 1905-1906 WHICH CARRIED BETTER THAN 4 PERCENT COPPER AND $11 IN GOLD A TON (1916)

Comments on the workings information

  • CONSISTS OF TWO CROSSCUT TUNNELS DRIVEN TO THE ORE ZONE FROM THE MAIN GULCH EAST OF THE DIVIDE AND A LARGE OPEN CUT WITH SHAFT ON THE DIVIDE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HILL, JAMES M. 1916 NOTES ON SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN EASTERN NEVADA, US GEO. BULL. 648

  • Deposit

    HOSE, R. K., BLAKE, M. C. JR., AND SMITH, R., 1976, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF WHITE PINE COUNTY, NEV. BUREAU OF MINES, BULL 85

  • Production

    HILL 1916

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit COPPER BASIN GROUP CONSISTS OF 25 CLAIMS ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1979 Giorgi, Albert John (Roberts, Ralph) 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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