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Lucky Day Claims

Occurrence in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodity Uranium
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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. Mineral occurrence model 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. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10044169
MRDS ID M231530
Record type Site
Current site name Lucky Day Claims
Alternate or previous names Nyemin No. 1 and 2 Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.17928, 38.91214 (WGS84)
Elevation 1324
Relative position 1.02 MILES SE OF HOT SPRINGS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Annie(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Gabbs Valley(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(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 Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 012N 034E 17 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Tertiary

Analytical data

Result A CHIP SAMPLE ASSAYED 0.33% U3O8

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 155
USGS model code 25f
Deposit model name Volcanogenic U

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) Alluvium, undifferentiated
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form COATINGS
    Strike N80E
    Dip 60S

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Ore Is Probably Control By A North Trending Fault Bounding A Major Caldron.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Broken Hills District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Pathfinder'S Mines Corp.

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A SMALL TRENCH AND TWO SMALL PITS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GARSIDE, L.J., 1973, RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES IN NEVADA: NBMG, BULL. 81, P. 93

  • 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.

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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