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Mustang and Mustang Extension Claims

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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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. Mineral occurrence model 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 10045766
MRDS ID M233587
Record type Site
Current site name Mustang and Mustang Extension Claims
Alternate or previous names Copenhagen

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.08786, 38.54132 (WGS84)
Elevation 2088
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position JUST SW OF MUSTANG HILL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Manhattan(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ione Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Southern Big Smoky Valley(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 008N 044E 19 N2 OF N2 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • IN MANHATTAN GULCH ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary

Analytical data

Result GOLD FINENESS: 705.5-711.3 PPT AU
Result 281.3-285.9 PPT AG
Result 6.3-9.1 PPT. BASE METALS

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 119
USGS model code 39a
Deposit model name Placer Au-PGE
Mark3 model number 54

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.08786, 38.54132
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Thickness 0.91M
    Depth to top 18.9M

Comments on the geologic information

  • UPPER 45 FT OF ROUGHLY STRATIFIED, ANGULAR, COARSE AND FINE GRAVEL, COARSER NEAR BASE. BENEATH THIS IS 15 FT OF ALTERNATING 1-FT-THICK BANDS OF CLAYEY SAND AND FINE GRAVEL. BENEATH THIS IS 1-2 FT OF HALF-INCH GRAVEL WHICH GRADES INTO THE COARSER PAY GRAVEL, WHICH HAS PEBBLES AND BOULDERS EMBEDDED IN A CLAYEY MATRIX

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Manhattan District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

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

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Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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