Tede Boy Claims

Occurrence in Lyon county in Nevada, United States with commodities Tungsten, Copper, Gold
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. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037677
MRDS ID M035848
Record type Site
Current site name Tede Boy Claims
Alternate or previous names NBMG # 3786

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.00987, 38.96408 (WGS84)
Elevation 1634
Relative position APPROX. 8.5 MI. E - SE OF YERINGTON, NEV.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lyon(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Yerington NE(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Smith Valley(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 Lyon

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 013N 027E 30 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Copper Primary
Gold Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Scheelite

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.00987, 38.96408

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • 10 - 15 FOOT THICK MINERALIZED ZONE IN DEEPLY WEATHERED GRANITE OF CRETACEOUS AGE. SOME OF THE VEIN MATERIAL CONTAINS A FAIR AMOUNT OF SCHEELITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Yerington

Comments on the workings information

  • 1 ADIT STIP MINE AND ADJACENT OLD WORKINGS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MOORE, J. G., 1969 , MINERAL RESOURCE MAP OF LYON, DOUGLAS, AND ORMSBY CO., NEV.BUREAU OF MINES, BULL. 75 .

  • Deposit

    TELLURIDE CLAIMS,YERINGTON MINING DISTRICT,LYON COUNTY,QUADE VISIT SITE 6-13-89,NBMG UNPUBLISHED MINING DISTRICT FILES (TINGLEY FILES).

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit AREA CUT BY ROADS AND DRILLED MAYBE TWENTY YEARS AGO. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1979 Fiebelkorn, J. B. (Stewart, J. H.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUL-1991 Marcus, S. (Doebrich, J.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Nevada resources

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