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Huntley Mine

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodity Talc-Soapstone
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Alteration
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Controls for ore emplacement
  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 10044265
MRDS ID M231648
Record type Site
Current site name Huntley Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.89512, 39.00853 (WGS84)
Elevation 1743
Relative position 4.5 MILES SE OF QUARTZ MTN.

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

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED TOWNSHIP AND RANGE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Talc-Soapstone Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Talc Ore
Clinochlore Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Intense Hydrothermal Alteration; Chloritization.

Nearby scientific data

(1) Alluvium, undifferentiated
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Leuchtenbergite Was Found In An Altered Zone Near The Margin Of The Quartz-Feldspar Porphyry Body.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1945
Discoverer W.D. Edds Of Mina

Mining district

District name Lodi District/Marble

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Huntley, W. H.
    First year 1951
  • Type Owner
    Owner Crawford, G.
    Home office Bishop
    First year 1951

Comments on the production information

  • SIX CARLOADS WERE SHIPPED IN 1949

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A SHALLOW PIT.

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

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-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.

External references

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Authoritative Nevada resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.