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

Walker Lake Prospect

Occurrence in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodity Iron
Map
XML
JSON
KML
D
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. Alteration
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037406
MRDS ID M035076
Record type Site
Current site name Walker Lake Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.78208, 38.83241 (WGS84)
Elevation 1341
Relative position 5 MI NW OF WALKER LAKE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Reese River Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Walker(hydrologic unit)

Walker(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Lahontan(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 Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 011N;012N 029E 06,07,31 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • BOTH SIDES OF HIWAY 95 8 MILES, SO. OF SCHURZ

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • NO MINABLE DEPOSITS OF COMMERCIAL - GRADE ORE HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED

Alteration

  • (Local) Epidotization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metavolcanic Rock
    Rock unit name Excelsior Formation
    Rock description Excelsior Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.78208, 38.83241
ListMap

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Intersection Of Cross Faults With Main No. Trending Fault.

Ore body information

  • General form VEINLETS, SMALL PODS AND INDIVIDUAL GRAINS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Mount Grant

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    REEVES, SHAW, KRAL NEV. BUREAU OF MINES BULL 53 IRON ORE DEPOSITS OF NEV. PART

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1978 Fiebelkorn, J. B. (Stewart, J. H.) 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.