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Redlick Claims

Past Producer in Esmeralda 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. Alteration
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  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 10046631
MRDS ID M241821
Record type Site
Current site name Redlick Claims
Alternate or previous names NBMG Sample Site 1089

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.99538, 38.18382 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Rock Hill(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Fish Lake-Soda Spring Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Esmeralda

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 004N 036E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • AREA UNSURVEYED. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Alteration

  • (Local) Sericitic

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Phyllite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Mudstone
    Rock unit name Diablo;Palmetto
    Rock description Diablo;Palmetto
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.99538, 38.18382
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Thrust Fault (Works Appear Along Thrust Contact).

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Comments on the geologic information

  • WORKINGS PROBABLY FOLLOWING HIGHLY FRACTURED ALMOST BRECCIATED QUARTZ VEINS, HEAVILY FE-MN STAINED, GOSSANY, BOXWORKS, INDICATIONS OF SULFIDES AT DEPTH, NONE OBSERVED ON SURFACE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Rock Hill District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF AT LEAST 3 SHAFTS, ONE ADIT AND SEVERAL DOG HOLES, AND DOZER CUTS. THE WORKINGS ARE COLLARED IN ALLUVIUM, THEREFORE, NO STRUCTURE IS APPARENT, HOWEVER, ROCKS ON THE DUMP WERE COMPOSED OF SILICIOUS SEDIMENTS AND METASEDS.

Comments on development

  • AREA HAS HAD TWO STAGES OF ACTIVITY, AN EARLIER PERIOD, POSSIBLY IN THE 1930'S AND THE MOST RECENT, WITHIN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS. (1982)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SMITH, 1982, FIELD EXAMINATION (AUG. 31, 1982)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1983 Lyles, B.F. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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