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Gypsy Claim

Occurrence in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodities Tungsten, Copper
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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. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10045453
MRDS ID M233196
Record type Site
Current site name Gypsy Claim
Alternate or previous names Silver Star Tungster-Copper, Pamlico

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.49124, 38.48075 (WGS84)
Relative position 12 MI. BY ROAD SE OF HAWTHORNE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pamlico(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Excelsior Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Walker Lake(hydrologic unit)

Walker(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Lahontan(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

DOD(Federal land areas administered by DOD)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 007N 031E 11 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • IN GARFIELD HILLS; UTM TAKEN AT CENTER OF SEC. 11

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Tertiary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore
Garnet Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result LOCALLY UP TO 0.5% WO3 AND 2% CU

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Marble
    Rock unit name Excelsior
    Rock description Excelsior
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.49124, 38.48075
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form POD/LENS
    Strike NW
    Dip STEEP NE
    Length 7.62M
    Width 0.3M

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE METAMORPHIC ROCKS HAVE BEEN FOLDED. SMALL LENSES OF QUARTZ, QUARTZ AND LIMONITE, GARNET, TACTITE, OR A COMBINATION OF ALL 3 OCCUR ALONG CONTACTS OR WITHIN THE MARBLE. MANY OF THESE CONTAIN NO SCHEELITE AND ONLY STAINS OF COPPER; SOME CONTAIN NARROW STREAKS OF LOW GRADE SCHEELITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Hawthorne District

Land status

Ownership category Military Reservation

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Kaylor, Earl C. And Helen
    First year 1942

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 9.14M

Comments on the workings information

  • 30-FOOT ADIT AND SMALL PITS

Comments on development

  • PROPERTY CONSISTS OF 2 UNPATENTED LODE CLAIMS KNOWN AS SILVER STAR 1 AND 2. THE LARGER PART OF THE CLAIMS LIE WITHIN THE U.S. NAVAL AMMUNITIONS DEPOT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ROSS, D. C., 1961, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA; NBMG BULL. 58

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, A. C. & BENSON, W. T., 1963, TUNGSTEN RESOURCES OF NEVADA; USBM

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SMALL PODS CONTAINING A LITTLE SCHEELITE AND OXIDIZED COPPER MINERALS OCCUR ALONG THE MARBLE-MONZONITE CONTACT, ALONG THE MARBLE-VOLCANIC CONTACT, AND LOCALLY WITHIN THE MARBLE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1981 Royse, Sue E. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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