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Unnamed Shaft and Prospects

Occurrence in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, Gold
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046758
MRDS ID M241963
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Shaft and Prospects
Related records 10197986

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.06143, 37.21885 (WGS84)

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

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED TOWNSHIP & RANGE ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1983

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Climax Stuck
    Rock description Climax Stuck
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Pogonip Group;P
    Rock description Pogonip Group;P

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.06143, 37.21885
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1905

Mining district

District name Oak Spring District

Land status

Ownership category Military Reservation

Comments on the workings information

  • 3 SHALLOW SHAFTS AND ADJACENT PROSPECTS AT MOUTH OF OAK SPRING WASH

Comments on development

  • WORKINGS ARE VERY OLD AND ARE ASSUMED TO BE PART OF THE EARLY AU/AG PROSPECTING IN THE AREA

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    QUADE, J., BENTZ, J., TINGLEY, J.V. AND SMITH, P., 1982, FIELD EXAMINATION ON NOV. 11, 1982

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit QUARTZ VEINS ARE WHITE, VUGGY AND CONTAIN MINOR SULFIDES. ONE SAMPLE IS FROM A DUMP NEAR A SHAFT IN QUARTZ MONZONITE AND CONSISTS OF BRECCIATED QUARTZ VEIN SYSTEM WITH MINOR SULFIDES

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1983 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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