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Browning Claims

Occurrence in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper
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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. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046724
MRDS ID M241926
Record type Site
Current site name Browning Claims
Alternate or previous names Dunfee Shaft, Dun Claims, Gold Mountain

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.34063, 37.32551 (WGS84)
Elevation 1833

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gold Point(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Last Chance Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Cactus-Sarcobatus Flats(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(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 Esmeralda

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 007S 041E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ABOUT 3 MILES SE OF TOWN OF GOLD POINT ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Iron Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Chalcopyrite Unknown

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification, Bleaching, Argillic

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Slate
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Faults, Folds.

Ore body information

  • Strike N 70 W
    Dip VERTICLE
    Thickness 0.91M
    Length 152.4M
    Width 60.96M

Comments on the geologic information

  • MEDIBEDIMENTS ARE INTENSELY FRACTURED, FOLDED AND DISTORTED. BRECCIATED, FE STAINS, QUARTZ VEIN MATERIAL IS NOTICIBLE ON DUMPS. VEIN IS BOXWORKED, GOSSANY, CALCITE CRYSTALS COATING SURFACES.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Hornsilver (Gold Point, Lime Point) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL LARGE DUMPS INDICATE 1000 FT OF WORKINGS EACH, AT LEAST 5 SHAFTS, TRENCHES, PERIFERAL SURFACE WORKINGS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BAKER, ARTHUR III, 1966, UNPUBLISHED NOTES ON SCOUTING EXPEDITION IN HORNSILVER AREA; NBMG FILE 92, ITEM 6.

  • Deposit

    SMITH/BENTZ, 1983, FIELD EXAMINATION, NBMG, 10 MAY 83

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ALTERED ZONE A COUPLE HUNDRED FEET WIDE AND SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET LONG

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1982 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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