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Silver Chief Prospects

Prospect in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Lead, Copper, Antimony
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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. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037626
MRDS ID M035706
Record type Site
Current site name Silver Chief Prospects
Alternate or previous names NBMG Sample Site #3559

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.22262, 38.6302 (WGS84)
Elevation 1981
Relative position APPROX. 8 MI NW OF LUNING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Ferguson(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Fish Lake-Soda Spring 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 Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 009N 034E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • GROUP OF SCATTERED PROSPECTS 1.5 MI SE OF SISKON CORP. EXPLORATION PITS

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Copper Primary
Antimony Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.22262, 38.6302
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • REFER TO RECORD NO. M035706

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Fitting

Comments on the workings information

  • A DOZEN OR MORE SHALLOW ADITS, PROSPECT PITS, AND SHAFTS ON EASTSIDE OF THE CANYON FOR APPROX. A MILE.

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOME OF THE ORE WAS PROCESSED AT THE MILL ON SILVER CHIEF PROPERTY.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SILVER CHIEFS PROSPECTS, FITTING DISTRICT, MINERAL COUNTY, QUADE, JACK NBMG SAMPLE SITE #3559 VISIT, 4/9/89, NBMG UNPUBLISHED MINING DISTRICT FILES (TINGLEY FILES)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEIN MATERIAL FROM DUMPS SHOWED GALENA, COPPER AND POSSIBLE SILVER SULFIDES. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1979 Fiebelkorn, J. B. (Stewart, J. H.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-1989 Quade, Jack U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-NOV-1991 Moyer, Lorre A. (Marcus, S.M.) 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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