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Dottie Lee Property

Occurrence in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Mercury
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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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10044232
MRDS ID M231606
Record type Site
Current site name Dottie Lee Property
Alternate or previous names Dottie Lee Mines, Bonita Canyon Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.54566, 39.06103 (WGS84)
Elevation 2585
Relative position AT THE END OF BONITA CANYON ROAD

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

South Shoshone Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Smith Creek Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Millett(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Reese(hydrologic unit)

Humboldt(hydrologic accounting unit)

Black Rock Desert-Humboldt(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 014N 039E 24 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED TOWNSHIP.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Tertiary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Tertiary
Mercury Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Fluorite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillization

Analytical data

Result RADIOACTIVITY - BACKGROUND = 0.017 MR/HR
Result HIGH =0.25MR/HR.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff > Ash-Flow Tuff
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.54566, 39.06103
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Fault Striking N 75 W, Dipping 85 S.

Ore body information

  • General form STRINGERS, VEINS, AND PODS
    Strike N75W
    Dip 85S
    Width 0.08M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Anomalous Radioactivity Is Associated With Purple Fluorite. Along The Hanging Wall Of A Fault.

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE TUFF IS CRYSTAL POOR, LITHIC, AND IRON STAINED. SILICIFIED HYDROTHERMAL BRECCIAS ALONG FAULT. FLUORITE COMPRISES UP TO 3% OF THE ROCK NEAR THE FAULT.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Jackson District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner August S. Fayes And Faye I. Fayes,
    Home office 165 Hoge Rd., Reno, Nv 89503

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 45 FT TRENCH, SEVERAL BULLDOZER CUTS AND A 55 FT ADIT.

Comments on development

  • UNPATENTED CLAIM (1979). SHALLOW DIAMOND-DRILL HOLE DRILLED IN EARLY 1980'S

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GARSIDE, L.J., 1973, RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES IN NEVADA: NEV. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOL., BULL. 81, P. 85

  • Deposit

    BONHAM, H.F., 1970, GEOLOGIC MAP AND SECTIONS OF A PART OF THE SHOSHONE MOUNTAINS: NEV. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOL., MAP 38

  • 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

    GARSIDE, L.J., FIELD EXAMINATION 09 AUG 1981.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-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

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