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Unnamed Claims

Occurrence in Churchill county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Lead, Antimony
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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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10043753
MRDS ID M231031
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.22486, 39.78851 (WGS84)
Relative position SHADY RUN CANYON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Churchill(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Fondaway Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Carson Sink(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Reno(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Carson Desert(hydrologic unit)

Carson(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 Churchill

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 022N 033E 12 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Tertiary
Silver Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Antimony Critical Tertiary

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.22486, 39.78851
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Shady Run District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Nevada Gold Mining Co

Comments on the workings information

  • THE DEPOSITS LIE MAINLY IN MESOZOIC GRANITE AND ARE SAID TO CONTAIN GOLD, SILVER, LEAD, AND ANTIMONY, AND TO INCLUDE RICH ANTIMONIAL SILVER DEPOSITS. THEY OCCUR IN WELL-DEFINED VEINS WHOSE OUTCROPPINGS ARE PROMINENT. DEVELOPMENT IS MOSTLY BY TUNNEL.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SCHRADER, F.C., UNPUBLISHED REPORT ON THE CARSON SINK AREA, NEVADA, 1947: NBMG FILES

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1980 Flynn, Patricia Dodd Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-SEP-1988 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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

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