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Green Spar Prospect

Occurrence in Lincoln county in Nevada, United States with commodity Fluorine-Fluorite
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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. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046547
MRDS ID M241728
Record type Site
Current site name Green Spar Prospect
Alternate or previous names Green Spar, Spar No. 1 and Spar No. 2 Claims, Davis North Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.73643, 38.04995 (WGS84)
Elevation 2438

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Badger Gulch(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Quinn Canyon Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lund(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

Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Lincoln

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 002N 055E 12 SW Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Calcite Gangue
Mica Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Hydrothermal, Argillization Of Volcanic Tuff

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.73643, 38.04995
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike NORTH EAST
    Dip STEEPLY
    Thickness 1.83M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1952
Discoverer Glen, G.L. & Lemoine, Davis

Mining district

District name Quinn Canyon District; Willow Creek District District; Willow Creek District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Wood, Norman
    First year 1976

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKING CONSIST OF EXPLORATION TRENCHES AND PITS, TOTALING 120 FT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PAPKE, K.G., 1979, FLUOSPAR OF NEVADA, NBMG, BULL 93, PG. 57.

  • Deposit

    HORTON, R.C., 1961, AN INVENTORY OF FLUORSPAR OCC. IN NEV., NBMG, REPT 1, P 19.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FLUORSPAR ZONES CAN NOT BE FOLLOWED MUCH BEYOND THE EDGES OF THE PITS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1983 Lyles, B.F. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-JAN-1985 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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