Kaiser Bill Prospect

Occurrence in Pershing county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Zinc
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. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10042538
MRDS ID M060363
Record type Site
Current site name Kaiser Bill Prospect
Alternate or previous names Unnamed Silver Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.18097, 40.32351 (WGS84)
Elevation 1760
Relative position IN LIMERICK CANYON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pershing(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Rochester(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Humboldt(hydrologic unit)

Humboldt(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 028N 034E 05 SW OF SW Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ON N SIDE LIMERICK CANYON NEAR MCCARTY SPRING; PREVIOUS QUAD DESIGNATION = UNIONVILLE (1954) 1:625000

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sphalerite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Pyritized

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 273
USGS model code 36a
Deposit model name Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein
Mark3 model number 27

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) Alluvium, undifferentiated

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • APLITE ADJACENT TO MINERALIZED QUARTZ VEIN IS SHATTERED & PENETRATED BY QUARTZ-TOURMALINE VEMLETS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Rochester District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • SEVERAL TENS OF TONS DURING 1920 & 1930'S

Comments on the workings information

  • AN INCLINED SHAFT (CAVED), SEVERAL SMALL SHAFTS AND PITS

Comments on development

  • APPARENTLY INACTIVE IN 1984

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KNOPF, A, 1924, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF ROCHESTER DISTRICT; USGS BULL. 762

  • Deposit

    SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO., 1964, MINERALS FOR INDUSTRY-NORTHERN NEVADA & NORTHWESTERN UTAH SUMMARY OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 1955-1961, SAN FRANCISCO V.1, SO. PACIFIC CO.

  • Deposit

    NBMG STAFF, 1985, NBMG OFR 85-3.

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, M.G., 1977, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA; NBMG BULL. 89

  • Deposit

    BONHAM, H. F., JR., 1984, NBMG FIELD EXAMINATION OF ROCHESTER DISTRICT.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit APLITE ADJACENT TO MINERALIZED QUARTZ VEIN IS SHATTERED AND PENETRATED BY QUARTZ-TOURMALINE VEINLETS.
Deposit EXPLORED AND DEVELOPED BY AN INCLINED SHAFT (CAVED), SEVERAL SMALL SHAFTS AND PITS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT; 3 FIELD OBSERV

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1973 Johnson, Maureen G. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-MAY-1986 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-DEC-1980 Royse, Sue E. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
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.

Authoritative Nevada resources

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