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Virginia Lode Claim

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046596
MRDS ID M241781
Record type Site
Current site name Virginia Lode Claim
Alternate or previous names Gilbralter Mine, Patent No. 2487

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.83339, 36.8969 (WGS84)
Relative position SE SLOPE OF BONANZA MTN - NEAR WORKINGS OFGILBRALTER MINE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Beatty(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Beatty(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Death Valley(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Amargosa(hydrologic unit)

Northern Mojave(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 012S 046E 16 N2 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Tertiary

Analytical data

Result SCINTILLATION COUNTER = 0.15 MR/HR

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.83339, 36.8969
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 25 E
    Dip 80 SE

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Along Fracture In Tuff

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Bullfrog District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • SURFACE RADIOACTIVITY CONFINED TO AREA 1 FT LONG AND 3 FT WIDE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GARSIDE, L.J., 1973, RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES IN NEVADA: NBMG BULL 81, P. 92

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1984 Hefner, M.L. (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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