Fisher-Watt Claims

Occurrence in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodity Gold
Sections on this page
  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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046744
MRDS ID M241948
Record type Site
Current site name Fisher-Watt Claims
Alternate or previous names Clayton Placer Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.11452, 37.86827 (WGS84)
Relative position LONG ROAD FROM GOLD FIELD AREA, AT EDGE OF PLAYA.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mud Lake South(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Ralston-Stone Cabin Valleys(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 Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
01S 43E 11;12 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Lake Sediments
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.11452, 37.86827

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULARLY DELIMENATED

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE EXAMINER SAW NO APPARENT REASON FOR CLAIM AT NORTHWEST CORNER OF MUD LAKE. LATER, PERSONAL COMMUNICATION WITH CHARLES G.(GARY) CLIFTON, FORMERLY WITH FISHER-WATT, INDICATED THAT GOLD VALUES WERE FOUND ON THE PLAYA. DRILLING SHOWED NO SIGNIFICANT AU VALVES, BUT THERE WAS SOME PROBLEM WITH SAMPLE CONTAMINATION AND CLIFTON THINKS THE PROPERTY HAS POSSIBILITIES.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Klondyke

Comments on development

  • CLAIM STAKING, REPORTEDLY SOME DRILLING.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GARSIDE, L.J., 1982, FIELD EXAMINATION (10 JUL 82)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1983 Lyles, B.F. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-FEB-1993 Marcus, S. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Nevada resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.