Hardhat Workings

Occurrence in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Molybdenum, Copper
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. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046753
MRDS ID M241958
Record type Site
Current site name Hardhat Workings
Alternate or previous names Pile-Driver Adit?
Related records 10174166

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.0592, 37.22357 (WGS84)
Elevation 1503

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Oak Spring(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Pahute Mesa(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Sand Spring-Tikaboo Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

DOE(Federal land areas administered by DOE)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Molybdenum Primary
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Molybdenite Ore
Kaolinite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Potassic Alteration; Chloritic Alteration

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Climax Stock
    Rock description Climax Stock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.0592, 37.22357

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description 3 Joint Sets (1) Nw, Near Vertical (2) Nne, Near Vertical (3) Ne, 20-35 Ne

Ore body information

  • Strike NW
    Dip 20-35 NE

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Joint Sets

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Oak Spring District

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 182.88M
    Overall depth 237.74M

Comments on the workings information

  • 780-FT SHAFT WITH 600-FT CROSSCUT AT BOTTOM SUNK BY AEC IN 1962.

Comments on development

  • IN USE AS A HIGH-LEVEL NUCLEAR STORAGE FACILITY

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SCHILLING, JOHN, 1968, NOTES, NBMG FILE 243, ITEM 4.

  • Deposit

    SCHILLING, JOHN, 1968, MOLYBDENUM RESOURCES OF NEVADA, NBMG OFR 79-3.

  • Deposit

    QUADE, J., 1983, FIELD EXAMINATION ON MAR. 23, 1983

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 3 JOINT SETS. MOLYBDENITE FLAKES AND AGGREGATES ALONG JOINTS, IN QUARTZ VEINLETS PEGMATITE DIKELETS, AND IN WALL ROCK ADJACENT TO THESE STRUCTURES, COMMONLY WITH PYRITE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1983 La Pointe, D.D. (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.

Authoritative Nevada resources

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