Hazel No. 6 Claim

Occurrence in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodity Uranium
Sections on this page
  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. Geologic structures
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10044319
MRDS ID M231717
Record type Site
Current site name Hazel No. 6 Claim
Alternate or previous names Hazel, Jane, And Valley View Groups

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.88453, 38.94715 (WGS84)
Elevation 2633
Relative position 6.1 MILES NE OF JET SPRING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Jet Spring(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mount Jefferson(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Northern 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 013N 045E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • EST. EXACT LOCATION UNKNOWN. ABOUT 30 CLAIMS IN THESE GROUPS, ADJACENT TO THE RAINBOW-CORD GROUPS.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Torbernite Ore
Iron Gangue

Analytical data

Result A CHIP SAMPLE CONTAINED 0.09 % U308
Result A SELECT SAMPLE REPORTEDLY CONTAINED 0.12 % U308.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Silurian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Chemical Sediment > Chert

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.88453, 38.94715

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Minor Faults Offset Beds And Mineralized Zones.

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Along A Fracture Zone.

Comments on the geologic information

  • COUNTRY ROCKS IN VICINITY OF THE JANE GROUP ARE CUT BY A SMALL GRANITIC PLUTON AND ALTERED GRANITIC DIKES

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Northumberland District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF THE DISCOVERY AND LOCATION PITS. FIELD EXAMINATION IN 1981 REVEALED FORMER PROSPECT PITS BULLDOZED OVER AND AREA OCCUPIED BY A LARGE DRILL PAD, WORK DONE WITHIN LAST 5 YEARS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GARSIDE, L.J., 1973, RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES IN NEVADA: NEV. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOL., BULL. 81, P. 87

  • 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

    SMITH, P., FIELD EXAMINATION, OCT 20, 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

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Authoritative Nevada resources

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