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Lime Claim

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodity Limestone, General
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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. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10045698
MRDS ID M233492
Record type Site
Current site name Lime Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.37781, 38.76716 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 250(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

White Pine Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Duckwater(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lund(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Hot Creek-Railroad Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
011N 059E 31 SE Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Limestone, General Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limestone Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Dunderberg Shale Correlative
    Rock description Dunderberg Shale Correlative

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.37781, 38.76716
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BEDDED
  • General form BEDDED

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Currant District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on development

  • IDLE SINCE 1956

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LUMSDEN, W.W., JR., 1964, GEOLOGY OF THE SOUTHERN WHITE PINE RANGE AND NORTHERN HORSE RANGE, NYE AND WHITE PINE COUNTIES, NEV: UCLA PH. D. THESIS, 249 P.

  • Deposit

    WIRE, J.C., 1961, GEOLOGY OF THE CURRANT CREEK DISTRICT, NYE AND WHITE PINE COUNTIES; UCLA M.A. THESIS, 154 P.

  • Deposit

    KLEINHAMPL, F.J. AND ZIONY, J.I. GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF NORTHERN NYE COUNTY, NEV; NBMG BULL. (IN PRESS).

Reporter information

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

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