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Tenderfoot

Occurrence in Elko county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, Bismuth
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  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 10045662
MRDS ID M233450
Record type Site
Current site name Tenderfoot
Alternate or previous names Part of Mizpah Consolidated Properties, Butte Group, Buena Vista Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.55893, 40.39464 (WGS84)
Relative position N END OF DOLLY VARDEN MT.S

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Elko(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mizpah Point(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Currie(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Elko(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Spring-Steptoe 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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Elko

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 029N 066E 17 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • 1 MILE E OF MIZPAH SPRING, BASED ON SNOW (PLATE 1)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Bismuth Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bismuth Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Malachite Ore
Pyrite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Sericitization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.55893, 40.39464
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N40 DEG W
    Dip 60 DEG SW

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Northward Trending Fractures

Comments on the geologic information

  • SMOKEY QUARTZ

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1916

Mining district

District name Dolly Varden (Mizpah)

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 36.58M

Comments on the workings information

  • 120-FT. INCLINE (WATER LEVEL AT 100FT.)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HILL, JAMES M, (1916) NOTES ON SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN EASTERN NEVADA, USGS BULL 648.

  • Deposit

    SNOW, G.G., 1963, MINERALOGY AND GEOLOGY OF THE DOLLY VARDEN MOUNTAINS, ELKO CO., NV, UNPUBLISHED PH. D. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE TENDERFOOT SHAFT IS ON SUMMIT OF THE RIDGE AT THE N.END OF THE DOLLY VARDEN MTS. IN THE OLD MIZPAH DISTRICT AREA. IT IS AN 120' INCLINE, AND WATER LEVEL WASAT 100'. THE VEIN IS NARROW, AND FROZEN TO SERICITIZED PYRITE-IMPREGNATED QUARTZMONZONITE WALLS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Deposit VEIN; FRACTURES

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1979 Tingley, J.V. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-MAR-1990 Marcus, Susan U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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