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Red Canyon Claims

Past Producer in Douglas county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, Sulfur
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037718
MRDS ID M035896
Record type Site
Current site name Red Canyon Claims
Alternate or previous names NBMG Sample Site #4405

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.42877, 38.84963 (WGS84)
Elevation 1646
Relative position 7 MI. N-NW OF WELLINGTON NEV.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Douglas(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Oreana Peak(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 Douglas

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 011N 022E; 023E 05 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • MOUTH OF RED CANYON

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Sulfur Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Pyrrhotite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.42877, 38.84963
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Sulfides Found At Surface, Carbonates And Sulfur At Depth

Comments on the geologic information

  • AN AREA OF OLD CAVED ADITS AND SHAFTS IN GOSSAN-LIKE CAPPING WITH IRREGULAR CONTACTS BETWEEN META-SEDIMENTS AND GRANITE. SULFIDES OCCUR AT SURFACE BUT CARBONATES AND SULFUR WERE REPORTED BY HILL, 1915, TO BE PRESENT IN THE DEEPEST WORKINGS. ORE SCATTERED AROUND ON DUMPS INCLUDE CHALCOPYRITE, PYRITE AND PYRRHOTITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Production years WAS ACTIVE IN 1915 BUT THERE ARE NO RECORDS.

Mining district

District name Red Canyon

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION UNSPECIFIED

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 22.86M

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL ADITS AND SHAFTS AT DIFFERENT LEVELS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HILL, J. M., 1915 , SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN NE CALIF. AND NW NEV., USGS, BULL. 594 .

  • Deposit

    MOORE, J.G., 1969, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF LYON, DOUGLAS AND ORMSBY COUNTIES, NEVADA; NBMG BULL 75.

  • Deposit

    RED CANYON CLAIMS, RED CANYON DISTRICT, DOUGLAS COUNTY, QUADE, JACK SAMPLE SITE #4405 VISIT, 7/11/89, NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY MINING DISTRICT FILES (TINGLEY FILES).

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1979 Fiebelkorn, J. B. (Stewart, J. H.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUL-1989 Quade, Jack U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-DEC-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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