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Rosebud

Past Producer in Pershing county in Nevada, United States with commodities Mercury, Tin, Manganese, Tungsten, Gold
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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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040612
MRDS ID M055453
Record type Site
Current site name Rosebud
Related records 10150629, 10222196

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.71099, 40.82738 (WGS84)
Elevation 1463
Relative position NEAR BARREL SPRINGS, 3 MI S OF SULPHUR. 35 MI N OF IMLAY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pershing(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sulphur(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Eugene Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Quinn(hydrologic unit)

Black Rock Desert(hydrologic accounting unit)

Black Rock Desert-Humboldt(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 Pershing

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 034N;033N 029E;030E 10 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED TOWNSHIP

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary
Tin Critical Primary
Manganese Critical Primary
Tungsten Critical Primary
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cassiterite Ore
Cinnabar Ore
Gold Ore
Huebnerite Ore

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 150
USGS model code 25c
Deposit model name Epithermal vein, Comstock
Mark3 model number 16

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Alluvium
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.71099, 40.82738
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Placer

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: BEDROCK: RHYOLITE - SILICIFIED, KAOLINIZED, AND SERICITIZED

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Rosebud District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Monkota Trust Syndicate, O. Wadell, And M. R. Jensen
    First year 1943

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HOLMES, 1965, MERCURY IN NEVADA: IN USBM IC 8252

  • Deposit

    BAILEY AND PHOENIX, 1944, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 41

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, M. G., GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. (IN PRESS)

  • Deposit

    VANDERBURG, W. D., 1936, RECONNAISSANCE OF MINING DISTRICTS IN PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA: USBM IC 6902.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ; MODEL NAME COULD ALSO BE: PLACER AU-PGE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1975 Gassaway, Judith S. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-SEP-1994 Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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