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Small Prospect Pit

Occurrence in Lincoln county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, Iron, Manganese
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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. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046427
MRDS ID M241585
Record type Site
Current site name Small Prospect Pit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.61112, 37.88635 (WGS84)
Elevation 1996
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

Highland Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Caliente(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Caliente(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Dry Lake Valley(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 Lincoln

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 001S 066E 05 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • SMALL PROSPECT PIT WEST OF BURROWS CANYON (EXACT LOCATION UNKNOWN)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Iron Secondary
Manganese Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Hematite Ore
Limonite Ore
Pyrite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Prospect Mountain Quartzite
    Rock description Prospect Mountain Quartzite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.61112, 37.88635
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 0.3M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Comet District

Comments on the workings information

  • PROSPECT PIT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    FITCH, D.C., 1964, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE COMET DISTRICT, LINCOLN CO., NEV.; UNIV. OF NEW MEXICO M.S. THESIS, P. 55

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit QUARTZ VEIN

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1984 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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