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Lida Millsite

Past Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Gold, Molybdenum
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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. 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 10046739
MRDS ID M241942
Record type Site
Current site name Lida Millsite
Alternate or previous names Sample Locations 1115, Mount Jackson Lida Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.40119, 37.48356 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lida(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 005S 041E 26 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • FOUR MILES NW OF HIGHWAY 3. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Primary
Gold Secondary
Molybdenum Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Calcite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.40119, 37.48356
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Contact Of Country Rx And Intruding Dikes

Comments on the geologic information

  • THERE ARE CAMBRIAN SEDIMENTS FORMING A THIN VENER OVER GRANITIC RKS. THAT HAVE BEEN INTRUDED BY RHYOLITE AND QTZ DIKES, AND VEINS. THE QTZ VEINS SHOW SOME COPPER OXIDES ALONG STRUCTURES THAT ARE HYDROTHERMALLY ALTERED. PROSPECTING IS ALONG OXIDIZED OUTCROPS EXTENDING OVER AREA OF SEVERAL SQUARE MILES. THE MINE SHAFT THAT HAS BEEN TAPPED AS A WATER SOURCE HAS A VERY LARGE DUMP, AND A WIDE RANG OF SULFIDE MINERALS, INCLUDING CHALCOPYRITE IN BOTH LS AND SILTSTONE. MOST OF THE DUMP HAS SULFIDE MINERALS ASSOCIATED WITH QTZ. AND CALCITE VEINS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Lida (Alida Valley, Tule Canyon) Districts

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • FOUR SHAFTS AND NUMEROUS PROSPECTS, DRILLING, TRENCHING

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    QUADE, J. FIELD EXAMINATION (1982)

  • Deposit

    ROOT, W.A., 1909, THE LIDA MINING DIST. OF NV: MINING WORLD, V.31, P. 123-125

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1982 Martin, Paul (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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

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