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Yellow Gold Claim and Hole In the Wall Group

Occurrence 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. Alteration
  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. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10045816
MRDS ID M233653
Record type Site
Current site name Yellow Gold Claim and Hole In the Wall Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.32954, 38.94825 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position To Prospect Pit In General Area Of The Claims - ( 1000 M)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

South Toiyabe Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ione Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Reese(hydrologic unit)

Humboldt(hydrologic accounting unit)

Black Rock Desert-Humboldt(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)

Arc Dome Wilderness(Wilderness)

Wilderness 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
Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • EXACT LOCATION UNKNOWN

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification, Local Argillization, Local Pyritization Of Country Rocks

Analytical data

Result SELECTED GRAB SAMPLE OF PYRITIZED, SILICIFIED ROCK CONTAINED 0.18 PPM AU
Result 1 PPM AG
Result 150 PPM ZR
Result 700 PPM BA

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff > Welded Tuff
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock
    Rock unit name Toiyabe Quartz Latite
    Rock description Toiyabe Quartz Latite

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Twin River District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Philip And Louis Meyer
    Home office Tonopah
    First year 1964

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFT AND 3 ADITS

Comments on development

  • A SKARN ZONE SUGGESTS THAT TUNGSTEN OR MOLYBDENUM WERE THE OBJECT OF EXPLORATION IN 1960'S9

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-82 La Pointe, D. D. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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