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Jack Group

Occurrence in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Uranium, Vanadium
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10044308
MRDS ID M231705
Record type Site
Current site name Jack Group
Alternate or previous names Six Mile No. 1 To No. 11 Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.30812, 38.68522 (WGS84)
Elevation 2707
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position 1.55 MILES N-NE OF MOHOGANY PEAK, Within 0.5 Mile., Within 0.5 Mile., Within 0.5 Mile.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Morey Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mount Jefferson(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Hot Creek-Railroad Valleys(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
010N 051E 28 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED TOWNSHIP AND RANGE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Tertiary
Vanadium Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Torbernite Ore

Analytical data

Result SAMPLES CONTAIN 0.02% U308. BACKGROUND RADIOACTIVITY = 0.02 MR/HR
Result HIGH = 0.20 MR/HR.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Siltstone
    Rock unit name Cockalorum Wash Formation
    Rock description Cockalorum Wash Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Devonian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Devonian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.30812, 38.68522
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Economic information

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 Morey District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner U.S. Vanadium Corp.
    First year 1972

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF AN OPEN CUT., BULLDOZER TRENCHES

Comments on development

  • SIXMILE CLAIM WAS STAKED BY JOHN AND EUGENE TITUS IN 1956-1957 AND WAS LATER INCORPORATED INTO THE JACK GROUP OF 9 CLAIMS. STRIPPING WAS CONDUCTED IN 1972 BY U.S. VANADIUM CORP

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GARSIDE, LJ, 1973, RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES IN NEVADA: NBMG, BULL. 81, P. 93

  • 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 THE LOCATION BY GARSIDE AND THAT OF KLEINHAMPL ARE NOT THE SAME. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-81 Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-82 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.

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