| Deposit ID | 10045432 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | M233162 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Qacme Copper Mine |
| Geographic coordinates: | -118.36234, 38.6327 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Relative position | 6 MILES N. OF ACME |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Mineral(county)
Nevada(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Win Wan Flat(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)
Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)
Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)
Hydrologic units (watersheds)
Fish Lake-Soda Spring 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)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Nevada | Mineral |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Diablo | 009N;009 | 032E;033E | 21;;19,20 | Nevada |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Copper | Tertiary |
| Silver | Tertiary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Cerargyrite | Ore |
| Chrysocolla | Ore |
| Malachite | Ore |
| Calcite | Gangue |
| Hematite | Gangue |
| Limonite | Gangue |
| Quartz | Gangue |
| Host or associated | Associated | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite | ||||||||
| Rock unit name | Granitic Rocks | ||||||||
| Rock description | Granitic Rocks | ||||||||
| |||||||||
| Host or associated | Host |
|---|---|
| Rock type | Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone |
| Rock unit name | Luning |
| Rock description | Luning |
| (1) | Phaneritic intrusive rocks |
|---|
| General form | LENSES |
|---|
| Development status | Occurrence |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Deposit size | Small |
| Significant | No |
| District name | Fitting District |
|---|
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | M233162 |
ROSS, D. C., 1961, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS IN MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA; NBMG BULL. 58
LINCOLN, 1923, MINING DISTRICTS AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF NEVADA; NEVADA NEWSLETTER PUBLISHING CO.
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | COPPER MINERALS OCCUR IN STRINGERS AND SMALL LENSES REPLACING LIMESTONE ALONG BEDDING PLANES NEAR GRANITIC ROCKS. |
| Deposit | REPLACEMENT OF LIMESTONE BY COPPER ORES IN THE FORM OF STRINGERS AND SMALL LENSES ALONG BEDDING PLANES. UTM LOCATION IS VERY APPROXIMATE, PLUS OR MINUS 1000M OR MORE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 01-JUN-1981 | Royse, Sue E. | Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology |
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