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Thanksgiving Mine

Past Producer in Lyon county in Nevada, United States with commodity Copper
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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. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037702
MRDS ID M035878
Record type Site
Current site name Thanksgiving Mine
Alternate or previous names Greenwood Prospect ?

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.26876, 38.97963 (WGS84)
Elevation 1646
Relative position APPROX. 5 MI. WEST OF YERINGTON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lyon(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Artesia Lake(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Smith Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

West 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 024E 23 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • 1 MI. NE OF LUDWIG ?

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Chrysocolla Ore
Malachite Ore
Andradite Gangue
Pyroxene Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.26876, 38.97963
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Yerington

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • UNKNOWN PRODUCTION

Comments on the workings information

  • INCLINED SHAFT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KNOPF, A., 1918 , GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE YERINGTON DISTRICT, NEV., USGS PROF. PAPER 114

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SKARN REFER TO: M035873

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1979 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.

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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