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Gold Prospects

Occurrence in Lincoln county in Nevada, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046482
MRDS ID M241649
Record type Site
Current site name Gold Prospects
Related records 10198356

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.79031, 37.40468 (WGS84)
Elevation 1859
Location accuracy 100(meters)
Relative position To One Of Several Prospects In Area

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cattle Spring(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Pahranagat Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Caliente(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Sand Spring-Tikaboo Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

DOD(Federal land areas administered by DOD)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Lincoln

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 006S 055E 1621PROJECTED FROM EAST NE (16) Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold 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) -115.79031, 37.40468
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Breccia Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Groom District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TSCHANZ, C.M. AND PAMPEYAN, E.H., 1970, NBMG BULL 73, P. 148-149, PL. I

Reporter information

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

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Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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