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Yellow Jacket Claims

Occurrence in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodities Fluorine-Fluorite, Tungsten, Molybdenum
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10045841
MRDS ID M233681
Record type Site
Current site name Yellow Jacket Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.90865, 39.87604 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Exchequer Spring(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Kern Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ely(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 White Pine

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 023N 062E 13 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • = 3 KM SW CHERRY CREEK.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary
Tungsten Critical Primary
Molybdenum Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Gangue
Scheelite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault & Stock Work

Comments on the geologic information

  • GRANITIC PORPHYRY O/C CUT BY MASSIVE QTZ. VEINS & STOCK WORKING. WEATHERED SCHEELITE PINKISH & DK. BROWN AND MASSIVE FLUORITE (PALE GREEN) OCCURRING IN JUGS & VEINLETS WITH CLEAR XSTALLINE QTZ. INTRUSIVE CHLORITIZIED VERTICAL FRACTURES & VEINS N10E, N30E, N50E. FAULT ZONE N30E, 35SE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Cherry Creek

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Rude, R. D.
    First year 1967

Comments on development

  • DRILL ROADS AND DOZER CUTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    OBSERVATION

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FAULT ZONE N30E 35SE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1982 Martin, Paul (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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