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Venture Claim

Occurrence in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Iron, Manganese
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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 10044327
MRDS ID M231725
Record type Site
Current site name Venture Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.70199, 38.79966 (WGS84)
Elevation 1920
Relative position ONE MILE N-NE OF BRADSHAW SPRING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bradshaw Spring(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Duckwater(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lund(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

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
Mount Diablo 011N 056E Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Manganese Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Calcite Gangue

Analytical data

Result 1980-SELECTED GRAB SAMPLE CONTAIN 15 % FE.

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.70199, 38.79966
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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 Pancake Range

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Carl And Lillian Oswald Of Duckwater

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF AN 8 FT DEEP PIT.

Comments on development

  • CLAIM RELOCATED BY PRESENT OWNERS ON SITE OF AN OLDER CLAIM.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KLEINHAMPL, F.J. AND ZIONY, J.I., GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSIT OF NORTHERN NYE CO.: NEV. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, BULLETIN, IN PRESS

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit POORLY-DEFINED VEIN OF LIMESTONE FRAGMENTS CEMENTED BY MANGANIFEROUS IRON OXIDES AND CALCITE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1981 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

Beyond USGS

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

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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