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Painted Chief Claim

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodity Stone, Crushed/Broken
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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. Geologic structures
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10044197
MRDS ID M231561
Record type Site
Current site name Painted Chief Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.88813, 38.04911 (WGS84)
Elevation 1829
Relative position 3.6 MILES S-SE OF MCKINNEY TANKS.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

McKinney Tanks(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Warm Springs(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Ralston-Stone Cabin Valleys(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 002N 045E 11,12 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Crushed/Broken Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.88813, 38.04911
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Beds Are Considerably Fractured

Comments on the geologic information

  • LIESEGANG BANDS ON BEDDING SURFACES. STRATA ARE THINBEDDED AND BEST MATERIAL SPLITS INTO SLABS UP TO 10 CM THICK, USED IN STORE FRONTS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Ellendale District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Frank Smith Of Palmdale, Calif.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Frank Trueba And Charles Joseph Of Tonopah.

Comments on the production information

  • UNKNOWN AMOUNT

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS UNKNOWN

Comments on development

  • ASSESSMENT WORK IN 1965-1966 DONE BY JOHN JAMES AND MELVIN GRAFTMAN OF CARSON CITY AND ROY KNIGHT OF TONOPAH.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KRAL, V.E., 1951, MINERAL RESOURCES OF NYE CO.: NEV. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOL., BULL. 50, P. 57

  • 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-AUG-1980 Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUN-1982 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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