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Snow Perlite Deposit

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 10046515
MRDS ID M241686
Record type Site
Current site name Snow Perlite Deposit
Related records 10149715

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.10527, 37.92718 (WGS84)
Elevation 2042
Location accuracy 500(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Deer Lodge Canyon(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 001N 070E 23 NW OF SE Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • 2 LODE CLAIMS ; 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 > Dacite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Dacite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.10527, 37.92718
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Dip O
    Thickness 30.48M
    Length 804.67M
    Width 402.34M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Eagle Valley (Gold Springs) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Leased To Canadian Global Investment Co., Toronto, Canada
    First year 1951
  • Type Owner
    Owner Wayne Snow, W. Atkin, Gile Hardy, All Of St. George Utah
    First year 1951

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    COCHRAN, K.L., 7951, UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD CO. PERLITE RESOURCES, REPORT, P. 17-18.

  • Deposit

    NBMG BULL 73, 1970, P 122-123, PL. I.

  • Reserve-Resource

    COCHRAN, K.L., 1951, P. 17-18.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 2 DEPOSITS: ONE IS PART OF A DACITE FLOW WITH CONSIDERABLE CONTAMINATION. THE PERLITE IS QUITE GLASSY, GREENISH BLACK, COVERING AN AREA 1320 FT BY 600 FT BY 50 FT THICK. THE SECOND IS A BLACKISH GREY GRANULAR FLOW 2640 FT LONG BY 1320 FT WIDE BY 100 FT THICK, WITH LITTLE CONTAMINATION. BOTH ARE FLAT-LYING. ABSENCE OF HEAVY OVERBURDEN.

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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

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