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Eccles and Minto Perlite Deposits

Occurrence in Lincoln county in Nevada, United States with commodity Perlite
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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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046438
MRDS ID M241598
Record type Site
Current site name Eccles and Minto Perlite Deposits
Related records 10270966

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.41222, 37.60997 (WGS84)
Elevation 1463
Location accuracy 500(meters)
Relative position 5.4 MILES E OF CALIENTE ON THE UNION PACIFIC RR, 500 M To The Eccles Deposit

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Eccles(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Caliente(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Caliente(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Meadow Valley Wash(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 004S 068E 07,08,17 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Perlite Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.41222, 37.60997
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Dip FLAT-LYING
    Thickness 45.72M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Caliente Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Combined Metals Reduction Co, 218 Felt Bldg, Salt Lake City, Utah
    First year 1951

Comments on development

  • NO DEVELOPMENT OTHER THAN DISCOVERY AND ASSESSMENT WORK AS OF 1951

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    COCHRAN, K.L., 1951, UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD CO. PERLITE RESOURCES.

  • Deposit

    TSCHANZ, C.M. AND PAMPEYAN, E.H., 1970, NBMG BULL 73, P. 122-123, PL. I.

  • Reserve-Resource

    COCHRAN, K.L., 1951, P. 8-9.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 2 DEPOSITS PROBABLY PART OF ONE CONTINUOUS MASS OVERLYING A RHYOLITE FLOW, AND PARTIALLY CAPPED BY AN ALTERED RHYOLITE. ECCLES DEPOSIT IS ABOUT 150 YDS S OF UPRR TRACKS, FREE OF OVERBURDEN, GOOD QUALITY, AND CONTAIN ABOUT 18,300,000 TONS. THE MINTO DEPOSIT IS ABOUT 0.25 MILE N OF UPRR TRACKS, EASILY ACCESSIBLE AND GOOD QUALITY GRANULAR PERLITE, CONTAINING ABOUT 981,000 TONS.

Reporter information

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

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