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Jeep Group

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Gold
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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. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Geologic structures
  13. Ore body information
  14. Controls for ore emplacement
  15. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  16. Mining district
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046760
MRDS ID M241966
Record type Site
Current site name Jeep Group
Alternate or previous names Clifford Gold-Silver Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.57979, 37.95773 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 2000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Stinking Spring(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Cactus Flat(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
Mount Diablo 001N 048E 12,11,,10,03 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Argentite Ore
Cerargyrite Ore
Gold Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification

Analytical data

Result AG AND AU VALUES ARE SAID TO BE ABOUT EQUAL

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 150
USGS model code 25c
Deposit model name Epithermal vein, Comstock
Mark3 model number 16

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.57979, 37.95773
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Fault Zone, Crushing

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 1.22M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Footwall Of Fault Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1920

Mining district

District name Golden Arrow District (Blakes Camp)

Comments on the workings information

  • EARLY WORKINGS (ABOUT 1920) INCLUDE SEVERAL SHALLOW TRENCHES AND CUTS PLUS A 60-FT SHAFT. LATER WORKINGS (1947) CONSISTED OF 3 INCLINED SHAFTS 10-15 FT DEEP, ONE POSSIBLY 100 FT. DEEP

Comments on development

  • CLAIMS ABANDONED SHORTLY AFTER 1920 AND RELOCATED IN LATE 1946. PROPERTY WAS ACTIVE IN THE EARLY 1950'S.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BENSON, W.T., 1947, PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION REPORT: CLIFFORD GOLD-SILVER PROSPECT, NYE COUNTY, NV. WFOC MINER. PROPERTY FILE NO. 30.43 (NEVADA); NBMG FILES

  • Deposit

    NORBERG, J.R., 1977, MINERAL RESOURCES IN THE VICINITY OF THE NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE AND THE NELLIS BOMBING AND GUNNERY RANGE, CLARK, LINCOLN, AND NYE COUNTIES, NEVADA: NBMG FILES

  • Deposit

    KRAL, V.E., 1951, NBMG BULL 50, P. 72.

  • Deposit

    CORNWALL, H., 1972, NBMG BULL 77, P. 37.

  • Production

    KRAL, V.E., 1951, P. 72

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CLIFFORD VEIN IS IN A 3-4-FT-WIDE CRUSHED FAULT ZONE. THE ORE OCCURS IN QUARTZ STRINGERS EXTENDING 12-18 INCHES INTO THE SILICIFIED FOOTWALL. TWO PARALLEL VEINS HAVE BEEN EXPOSED WITHIN 300 FT OF THE MAIN VEIN AND A CROSS VEIN IS ABOUT 600 FT WEST OF THE 1947 WORKINGS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-83 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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