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Blue Nose Group

Occurrence in Lincoln county in Nevada, United States with commodities Mercury, Lead, Copper, Antimony, Barium-Barite, 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. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046375
MRDS ID M241520
Record type Site
Current site name Blue Nose Group
Alternate or previous names May Include Indian Lode 1-3 Claims, Larson Prospect, Bn Claims, Nbmg Sample Sites 1734, 1735

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.32026, 37.23137 (WGS84)
Elevation 1494
Location accuracy 1000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Blue Nose Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Clover Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Caliente(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Virgin(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(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 Lincoln

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 008S 069E 19,30 SW (19); NW (30) Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ADJACENT TO CRYSTAL PROSPECT. 20 OR MORE CLAIMS EXTENDING SSW FROM A POINT 0.5 MILE SW OF BLUE NOSE PEAK. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary
Lead Primary
Copper Primary
Antimony Critical Tertiary
Barium-Barite Critical Tertiary
Silver Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Cinnabar Ore
Galena Ore
Malachite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification And Mineralization Of Limestone Exposed At Surface

Analytical data

Result SAMPLES 1734, 1735 CONTAIN 10 AND 50 PPM AG, 1000 AND 0 PPM AS, 5000 AND GREATER THAN 500 PPM BA, 70 AND 500 PPM CU, 200 AND 2000 PPM PB, 0 AND 2000 PBSB, 100 AND 2000 PPM SR, 1000 PPM ZN.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.32026, 37.23137
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Faults, Fractures

Ore body information

  • Strike ONE ZONE: N70E; ANOTHER N40W
    Dip 90 TO STEEP SE; ANOTHER 35 NE
  • Strike ONE ZONE: N70E; ANOTHER N40W
    Dip 90 TO STEEP SE; ANOTHER 35 NE

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Favorable Host Rock-Limestone; N70e Fault; High Angle Cross-Fractures

Comments on the geologic information

  • BEDDING STRIKES N45W, DIP 35 NE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1944
Discoverer Charles Larson

Mining district

District name Viola District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Holt, J. L., V. G., And M. F.

Comments on the workings information

  • AN ADIT AT ALTITUDE 4759 FT, DRIVEN NE INTO LIMESTONE HILL FOR ABOUT 200 FT; A SECOND ADIT 0.5 MILE TO THE NE, SEVERAL PROSPECT PITS, BULLDOZER CUTS AND SHALLOW SHAFTS, INCLINED STOPE OR RAISE

Comments on development

  • THE FIRST 5 BLUE NOSE CLAIMS WERE LOCATED IN 1944 BY CHARLES LARSON WHO REPORTED ANNUAL EXPLORATION UNTIL 1957. PROBABLY, THE SMALL MERCURY PRODUCTION CREDITED TO THE BLUE NOSE GROUP CAME FROM THE ADJACENT CRYSTAL CLAIMS, ALSO ONCE HELD BY LARSON. SHALLOW SURFACE EXPLORATION WORK (DOZER SCRAPING) HAS BEEN DONE SOUTH AND EAST OF WORKINGS. OUTCROP AND DUMP SAMPLING OF THE WORKINGS HAS BEEN DONE WITHIN THE PAST YEAR OR TWO.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MERCURY DEPOSITS OF NEVADA; UNPUBLISHED NBMG MANUSCRIPT.

  • Deposit

    TSCHANZ, C.M. AND PAMPEYAN, E.H., 1970, NBMG BULL 73.

  • Deposit

    USBM, 1965, I.C.8252, P. 280-281

  • Deposit

    BENTZ, J. AND SMITH, P., 1983, FIELD EXAMINATION, 9/21/83.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LIMESTONE IS SILICIFIED AND MINERALIZED, AND IN DUMPS SHOWS COPPER AND LEAD MINERALS AS WELL AS IRON STAINING. ADIT APPEARS TO FOLLOW A N70 E VERTICAL TO STEEPLY SE-DIPPING SHEAR ZONE IN JASPEROID AND QUARTZITE BUT TURNS NW TO EXPLORE MAIN SILICIFIED ZONE. ROCKS AT PORTAL ARE FRACTURED AND CALCITEVEINED. LIMESTONE PREDOMINATES ON THE NORTH SIDE OF N 70 E FAULT WHILE QUARTZITE AND JASPEROID FROM RESISTANT KNOBBY OUTCROPS ON SOUTH SIDE. JASPEROIDS COVER MUCH OF THE AREA SURROUNDING THE WORKINGS. SAMPLE 1734 WAS TAKEN FROM THE ADIT DUMP AND CONSISTS OF FE-STAINED BRECCIATED VUGGY, GOSSANY, HIGHLY SILICEOUS MOTTLED GREY JASPEROID. SMALL IRON-STAINED BRECCIA VEINS CUT THROUGH ROCK; SOME QUARTZITE FRAGMENTS OCCUR IN BRECCIA, BUT MAINLY THE FRAGMENTS ARE LIMESTONE. THE SLOPE FOLLOWS A SILICIFIED QUARTZ AND BARITE-VEINED, JASPEROID FAULT ZONE STRIKING N 40 W, DIP 35 NE. HANGING WALL IS QUARTZITE, FOOTWALL IS GREY LIMESTONE. LIMESTONE BEDS ARE TRUNCATED BY A HIGH-ANGLE FAULT ZONE, BUT
Deposit QUARTZITE BEDDING PARALLELS FAULT. NEAR FAULT CONTACT, LIMESTONE IS BRECCIATED, SILICIFIED AND CEMENTED BY VUGGY BARITE AND QUARTZ, FORMING A QUARTZ-VEINED JASPEROID. HONEYCOMBED POROUS QUARTZ, BARITE AND C

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-84 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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