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Pilot Claims

Occurrence in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Uranium, Mercury, 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. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046805
MRDS ID M242017
Record type Site
Current site name Pilot Claims
Alternate or previous names Tule Royal Claim Gp.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.52535, 37.27495 (WGS84)
Elevation 1286

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tule Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Last Chance Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Death Valley-Lower Amargosa(hydrologic unit)

Northern Mojave(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(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 008S 040E 05,06 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • 6 CLAIMS ALONG EAST SIDE OF TULE CANYON NEAR ITS MOUTH. UTM IS TO NEAR CENTER OF WORKINGS ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Mercury Primary
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Chalcopyrite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Local Chloritization

Analytical data

Result BACKGROUND RADIOACTIVITY = 0.15 MR/HR
Result HIGH = 0.2 MR/HR. GRAB SAMPLE CONTAINED 0.02% EU3O8

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Sylvania Pluton
    Rock description Sylvania Pluton
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.52535, 37.27495
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 0.61M
    Width 0.61M

Comments on the geologic information

  • QUARTZ VEIN IS CRUSHED AND BLEACHED, BRECCIATED, CEMENTED WITH FE STAINED SILICA. MINOR CU STAINING OF VEIN.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Tokop (Gold Mountain) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • SMALL PITS, OPEN AND CAVED SHAFTS, ADITS. WORKINGS COVER 42 SQUARE MILE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GARSIDE, L.J., 1973, NBMG BULL 81, P. 52.

  • Deposit

    SMITH/BENTZ, 1983, FIELD EXAMINATION, NBMG, 11 MAY 83.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit A SMALL AREA (2 SQ FT) OF ANOMALOUS RADIOACTIVITY IS ASSOCIATED WITH A 2-FT WIDE QUARTZ VEIN. RADIOACTIVITY IS ASSOCIATED WITH LIMONITIC PATCHES IN GRANITIC COUNTRY ROCK ADJACENT TO THE VEIN

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1982 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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