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Purple Spar Prospect

Occurrence in Churchill county in Nevada, United States with commodity Fluorine-Fluorite
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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. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10045403
MRDS ID M233117
Record type Site
Current site name Purple Spar Prospect
Alternate or previous names Cyclone Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.08763, 39.49935 (WGS84)
Elevation 1341

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Churchill(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Wonder Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Fallon(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Reno(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 019N 035E 19 NW Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ON WEST SIDE OF CLAN ALPINE MTS., AT S. END OF A SPUR CALLED LOUDER BACK MTS., 20.5 MILES BY ROAD NORTH OF THE JUNCTION OF U.S. HGWY. 50 AND THE DIXIE VALLEY ROAD. TO LOWER ADIT OF SEVERAL WORKINGS SHOWN ON TOPO SHEET. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • PALE PURPLE TO V.L.T. GRAY FINE-GRAINED FLUORITE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Bleaching, Montmorillonitic

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Quartz Latite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Latite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.08763, 39.49935
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike S70E
    Dip NEAR VERTICAL
    Width 0.76M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1944
Discoverer V.S. Baxter(Located Lode Claim)

Mining district

District name Wonder District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Originla Klondyke Divide Mining Co.
    First year 1972
  • Type Owner
    Owner Original Klondyke Divide Mining Co.
    First year 1972

Comments on the workings information

  • 30-FT. LONG CUT, ADIT; SOME TRENCHING AND DRILLING WERE DONE ALONG PROJECTED STRIKE OF THE VEIN, EXPOSING OTHER SIMILAR BUT SMALLER VEINS.

Comments on development

  • BAXTER HELD THE CLAIM UNTIL 1955; IN 1972, ORIGINAL KLONDYKE DIVIDE MINING CO. WAS DOING SOME EXPLORATION WORK.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PAPKE, K.G., 1979, FLUORSPAR IN NEVADA; NBMG. BULL.93

  • Deposit

    SCHRADER, F.C.,(1947) REPORT ON THE CARSON SINK AREA; U.S.G.S. OPEN FILE REPORT , P. 42.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FLUORITE OCCURS IN SMALL IRREGULARLY-DISTRIBUTED MASSES, MAKING UP ABOUT 1/3 OF THE VEIN MATERIAL

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1981 La Pointe, D.D. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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