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Mabel Claims

Past Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Tungsten
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046843
MRDS ID M242059
Record type Site
Current site name Mabel Claims
Alternate or previous names Ouida Claim, Gold Crest Mining G. Property, NBMG Sample Sites 1182, 1183

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.26869, 37.29078 (WGS84)
Elevation 2164

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gold Point(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 007S 042E 34 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ABOUT 0.75 MILE S OF TOKOP ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Tertiary
Copper Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Tungsten Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Malachite Ore
Epidote Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Pyrite Unknown

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification Of Limestone

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
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Skarn (Tactite)
    Rock unit name Wyman Formation
    Rock description Wyman
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.26869, 37.29078
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 80 W
    Dip 90
    Thickness 0.61M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Sheared, Brecciated Zones Of Silicified Limestone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Tokop (Gold Mountain, Bonnie Claire) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • PROSPECT HOLES, SHAFTS; 200 FT BY 20 FT TRENCH, SURFACE TRENCHES AND CUTS IN VICINITY; SHALLOW WORKINGS ACROSS DRAINAGE.

Comments on development

  • ACTIVE IN 1907 RECENT SURFACE TRENCHING AND DOZING IN AREA (1983)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BALL, S.H., 1907, USGS BULL 308, P. 182-190

  • Deposit

    SMITH/BENTZ, 1983, FIELD EXAMINATION, NBMG, 6 MAY 83

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit WHITE VEIN QUARTZ HAS BEEN CRUSHED AND FRAGMENTS RECEMENTED BY HEMATITE AND LIMONITE. WORKINGS FOLLOW N-S CONTACT BETWEEN HIGHLY ALTERED INTRUSIVE QUARTZ MONZONITE, SYLVANIA PLUTON, AND LIMEY SILICEOUS METASEDIMENTS, FORMING AN EPIDOTE-GARNET TACTITE. ROCKS ARE CUT BY FE OXIDE-STAINED QUARTZ VEINS ALONG INTERSECTING HIGH-ANGLE FAULT/FRACTURE ZONES.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1982 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.

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