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Scott Prospect

Past Producer in Churchill county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Molybdenum, Tungsten
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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 10045377
MRDS ID M233089
Record type Site
Current site name Scott Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.71567, 39.67102 (WGS84)
Elevation 1768
Location accuracy 250(meters)
Relative position 27 MILES NNE OF THE TOWN OF EASTGATE WHICH IS ON STATE ROUTE 50

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Churchill(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tungsten Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Edwards Creek Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Millett(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Dixie Valley(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 Churchill

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 021N 038E 21 W2 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • IN NORTHERN END OF ALPINE MINERAL BELT, 14 MILES NNE OF ALPINE, 4 MILES NORTH OF BYER'S RANCH AND ABOUT 1 MILE WEST OF THE SHOSHONE PASS-BYER RANCH-ALPINE ROAD ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Molybdenum Tertiary
Tungsten Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Molybdenite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
    Rock unit name Star Peak Formation
    Rock description Star Peak Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.71567, 39.67102
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Igneous Contact; Where A Trough Or Syncline Is Formed By The Shale.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Alpine (Clan Alpine, 1864) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Scott, G.
    Home office Fallon
    First year 1947

Comments on development

  • THE DEPOSIT IS SAID TO HAVE PRODUCED GOOD VALUES IN GOLD AND TO CONTAIN MOLYBDENITE WITH WHICH MOST OF THE GOLD IS ASSOCIATED.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SCHRADER, F.C., 1947, CARSON SINK AREA, NEVADA: U.S.G.S. OPEN FILE REPORT

  • Deposit

    WILLDEN, R., R.C. SPEED, 1974; GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF CHURCHILL COUNTY, NEVADA; N.B.M.G. BULL. 83

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSIT SAID TO HAVE PRODUCED GOOD VALUES IN GOLD. MOST OF GOLD ASSOCIATED WITH MOLYBDENITE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-81 La Pointe, D.D. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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