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Poor Boy Claim

Occurrence in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodity Copper
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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. Alteration
  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 10044257
MRDS ID M231636
Record type Site
Current site name Poor Boy Claim
Alternate or previous names Argentum Grounds

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.89956, 39.02714 (WGS84)
Elevation 1710

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Quartz Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

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

Millett(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
013N 036E 02 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED TOWNSHIP AND RANGE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary

Alteration

  • (Local) The Brown Limestone Is Partly Dolomitized And Silicified. Porphyry Is Slightly Limonitized, Chloritized, And Sericitized.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.89956, 39.02714
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Shear Zones (N50w, 80sw; N80w, 75sw) Major Wnw-Trending Normal Fault; Nw-Striking Range-Front Fault.

Ore body information

  • Strike N35E
    Dip 70-80
    Thickness 0.61M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zone (?)

Comments on the geologic information

  • LOCALIZED CALCITE VEINLETS ARE PRESENT. VEINS HAVE SHARP CONTACTS WITH ALTERED PORPHYRY WALLROCK AND ARE COMMONLY BRECCIATED AND RECEMENTED WITH QUARTZ AND IN PLACES LIMONITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Lodi District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Lashby, G. D.
    Home office Gabbs
    First year 1948

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF TWO SHAFTS, TWO TRENCHES, AND THREE SHALLOW PITS.

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

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit QUARTZ VEINS AND GOSSAN LENSES ALONG SHEARED AND BRECCIATED ZONES.

Reporter information

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

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