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Location #7 of Sayeed

Occurrence in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodities Iron, Tungsten
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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. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046613
MRDS ID M241800
Record type Site
Current site name Location #7 of Sayeed

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.06613, 39.65161 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Skinner Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Kern Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ely(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Hamlin-Snake Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(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 White Pine

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 021N 070E 33 SE Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ON NORTH SIDE OF KERN MOUNTAINS. ROAD TO PROPERTY GOES SW ABOUT 1.2 MILES SE OF UVADA SCHOOL ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chlorite Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Muscovite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Cove Pluton
    Rock description Cove Pluton
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.06613, 39.65161
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 2.44M
    Length 6.1M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Igneous Contact

Comments on the geologic information

  • LIMESTONE ON EITHER SIDE OF VEIN HAS ZEBRA TEXTURE, BLK-GRAY TO WHITE SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET IN BOTH DIRECTIONS OUT FROM QUARTZ VEIN

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Eagle (Kern, Pleasant Valley, Tungstonia) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO SHAFTS 300-400 FT APART. ONE IS ABOUT 15 FT DEEP, THE OTHER 100 FT OR MORE DEEP INCLINED TO THE EAST

Comments on development

  • NO ACTIVITY AT TIME OF EXAMINATION IN 1980

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    JONES, R.B., 1980, FIELD EXAMINATION, 6-14-80.

  • Deposit

    SAYEED, U.A., 1974, PETROLOGY AND STRUCTURE OF THE KERN MOUNTAINS PLUTONIC COMPLEX, WHITE PINE CO., NEV. AND JUAB CO., UTAH, UNIV OF NEB. PHD. DISS.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit QUARTZ VEIN-MILKY WHITE QUARTZ, HEAVILY IRON STAINED IN PLACES

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1983 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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