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Arizona Claim

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Copper, Antimony, Gold, Molybdenum, Lead
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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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10044163
MRDS ID M231523
Record type Site
Current site name Arizona Claim
Alternate or previous names Canfield Mine, Childs
Related records 10295445

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.86063, 38.57965 (WGS84)
Elevation 2225
Relative position 1.38 MILES SE OF BELMONT TOWNSITE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Belmont East(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mount Jefferson(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Diamond-Monitor Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 009N 045E 36 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Copper Tertiary
Antimony Critical Tertiary
Gold Tertiary
Molybdenum Tertiary
Lead Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cerargyrite Ore
Molybdenite Ore
Stetefeldite Ore
Stromeyerite Ore
Wulfenite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Argillite

Nearby scientific data

(1) Felsic phaneritic intrusive rocks
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Faults And Minor Folds

Ore body information

  • Strike N15-20W
    Dip 30-45NE
    Width 6.1M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • In A Seam Near The Hanging Wall.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Belmont District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Silver Bend Co.

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A SHAFT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KLEINHAMPL, F.J. AND ZIONY, J.I., GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF NORTHERN NYE CO.: NEV. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, BULLETIN, IN PRESS.

  • Deposit

    NBMG BULL 50

  • Production

    KRAL, 1951, P. 23

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit TRANSYLVANIA NO. 1 VEIN

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1980 Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-1982 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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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