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Alaska Patent

Past Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Lead, 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. 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. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10044596
MRDS ID M232102
Record type Site
Current site name Alaska Patent
Alternate or previous names Lone Mountain Syndicate Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.51564, 37.96855 (WGS84)
Elevation 1853
Relative position 3.6 MILES NE OF WEEPAH.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Weepah(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Esmeralda

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 001N 040E 05,06 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Sphalerite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Chloritization Of Diorite

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Harkless
    Rock description Harkless
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Marble
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.51564, 37.96855
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Stratification In Host Rocks

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Lone Mountain District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • SMALL INCLINE

Comments on development

  • M.S. 4211, ALASKA LODE PATENT ISSUED IN 1914 TO WASHINGTON NEVADA MINING CO. WHEN EXAMINED IN 1979, SEVERAL SAMPLE TRENCHES THROUGH DUMP WERE NOTED; SOME EXPLORATION AND SAMPLIE K1A ; HORNFELSNG APPEARED TO HAVE BEEN DONE WITHIN THE PAST 10 YRS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SPURR, J.E., 1906, ORE DEPOSITS OF THE SILVER PEAK QUAD., NEV.: USGS PP 55, P. 79-80.

  • Deposit

    BONHAM, H.F., FIELD EXAMINATION REPORT 10-25-79.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit COARSE GALENA IN WHITE QUARTZ VEIN

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1981 Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUN-1985 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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