1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Eagle Prospect

Occurrence in Elko county in Nevada, United States with commodities Antimony, Gold, Silver, Barium-Barite
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
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. Alteration
  9. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Geologic structures
  13. Ore body information
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10045153
MRDS ID M232825
Record type Site
Current site name Eagle Prospect
Alternate or previous names Griffith

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.93536, 41.29101 (WGS84)
Relative position LOCATED 1 MILE SOUTHWEST OF SAVAL RANCH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Elko(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mahala Creek West(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Double Mountain(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Wells(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

North Fork Humboldt(hydrologic unit)

Humboldt(hydrologic accounting unit)

Black Rock Desert-Humboldt(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 Elko

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 039N 054E 07 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Antimony Critical Primary
Gold Secondary
Silver Secondary
Barium-Barite Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore
Stibnite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Antimony Oxides Present

Analytical data

Result SEE LAWRENCE (1963) P. 49

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 180
USGS model code 27d
Deposit model name Simple Sb (veins, pods, etc)

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.93536, 41.29101
ListMap

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Brecciated Limestone

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Comments on the geologic information

  • TWO VEINS CUT THE LIMESTONE. VEINS ARE PRINCIPALLY QUARTZ W/ BLEBS, PODS, AGGREGATES, & DISSEMINATEIONS OF STIBNITE CRYSTALS. STIBNITE PARTIALLY ALTERRED TO YELLOW & WHITE ANTIMONY OXIDES

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Burns Basin

Comments on the workings information

  • 2 OPEN CUTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SMITH R.M. (1976-56) MINERAL RESOURCES OF ELKO CO. NEV., USGS OPEN-FILE REPORT

  • Deposit

    LAWRENCE E.F.(1963)ANTIMONY DEPOSITS OF NEVADA, NEV. BUREAU OF MINES BULL G1

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEVELOPMENT CONSISTS OF TWO OPEN CUTS. LOCATIONS GIVEN FOR PROSPECT ARE CONFLICTING, MAY ALSO BE IN T39N, R53E, SEC.6 ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Deposit 2 VEINS OF QUARTZ WITH BLEBS, PODS, AGGREGATES & DISSEMINATIONS OF STIBNITE CRYSTALS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1979 Kirkham, Richard A. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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

Maps centered on this site

Authoritative Nevada resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.