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Queen City Claims

Occurrence in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodity 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. Ore body information
  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 10044523
MRDS ID M231972
Record type Site
Current site name Queen City Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.97921, 37.74662 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 2000(meters)
Relative position 1 MILE SOUTH OF STATE HIGHWAY 25 AND 1.5 MI EAST OF OSWALD CLAIM

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

White Blotch Springs NW(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Timpahute Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Caliente(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
002S 053E Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gibbsite Ore
Lithiophorite Ore
Pyrolusite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Nopah Formation
    Rock description Nopah Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Length 30.48M
    Width 12.19M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Along Fissures Striking Northeast And Dipping Steeply.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1935

Mining district

District name Queen City District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF SEVERAL TRENCHES

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CORNWALL, H.R., 1972, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF SOUTHERN NYE COUNTY: NBMG BULL. 77, P. 40

Reporter information

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

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