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Buckeye Prospect

Occurrence in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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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. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10044287
MRDS ID M231682
Record type Site
Current site name Buckeye Prospect
Alternate or previous names Sherman ?

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.0587, 38.57437 (WGS84)
Elevation 2606
Relative position NW SLOPE OF BUCKEYE HILL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Manhattan(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ione Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Southern Big Smoky Valley(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(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 008N 044E 05 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Hematite Gangue
Limonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Kaolinization Of Vein

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Quartz Latite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.0587, 38.57437
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Post-Mineral Faulting Formed Quartzose Gouge

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR, SMALL POCKETS
    Thickness 0.46M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • No Information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Manhattan District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Buckeye Mining Co.
    First year 1912

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS AS OF 1915 CONSISTED OF TWO ADITS. ONE 750 FT LONG, AND A 100-FT SHAFT.

Comments on development

  • 8 CLAIMS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    FERGUSON, H.G., 1924, GEOL. AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE MANHATTAN DISTRICT: USGS BULL 723, P. 136

  • Deposit

    LIDDELL,CHARLES A.,1912, UNPUBLISHED REPORT ON FILE AT NBMG, FILE 240, ITEM 3.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MINERALIZATION IS IN SMALL VEINS OF COMBY QUARTZ WITH SPECKS OF LIMONITE CONTAINING RARE SPECKS OF FREE GOLD.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-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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