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Unnamed Prospect-Sample Location 1918

Occurrence in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  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 10046876
MRDS ID M242100
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Prospect-Sample Location 1918
Related records 10295063

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.90393, 37.15775 (WGS84)
Relative position 0.3 MILE N 15 W FROM SAMPLE LOCATION 1900

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Jangle Ridge(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Pahranagat Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Caliente(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

DOD(Federal land areas administered by DOD)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UTM IS FOR MAJOR BORAX PLANT LOCATED IN SOUTHERN PART OF THE MARSH, BUT THE ACTUAL DEPOSIT COVERS MANY SQUARE MILES. INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972
  • 1.35 AIRMILES S75E FROM RAINSTORM GROUP ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.90393, 37.15775
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Fault

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 1.22M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Brecciation Along Shear Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • SAMPE 1918 TAKEN FROM DUMP AND SHEAR ZONE

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

Land status

Ownership category Military Reservation

Comments on the workings information

  • SURFACE WORKINGS, PITS, AUGER HOLES (14 IN ALL) . REMAINS OF 9 BORAX WORKS, MOST ALONG THE N AND S EDGES OF THE MARSH. THE SALT WORKS WERE AT THE NORTHERN EDGE OF THE MARSH.
  • SMALL CAVED ADIT WITH SOME SULFIDES ON DUMP; PROSPECT PIT

Comments on development

  • LOCATED AS A SALT DEPOSIT IN 1864. ULEXITE WAS DISCOVERED IN 1871, AND WITHIN A FEW YEARS, A NUMBER OF TREATMENT PLANTS WERE ACTIVE (4 BORAX COMPANIES). THE PACIFIC BORAX CO. MOVED ITS PLANT TO FISH LAKE VALLEY IN 1875, AND THE TOWN OF COLUMBUS DECLINED RAPIDLY THEREATER. EXPERIMENTS CARRIED OUT BY THE U.S.G.S. IN 1912 & 1913 SHOW POTASH PRESENT IS NOT IN COMMERCIAL AMOUNTS. DRILLING FOR POTASH OCCURRED IN 1912 AND 1913. ; ECON.COM: BORAX WAS PRODUCED AT COLUMBUS MARSH BY AT LEAST 4 COMPANIES, INCLUDING PACIFIC BORAX CO.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    QUADE, J., AND BENTZ, J., FIELD EXAMINATION ON 12-6-82 AND 3-20-83

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Discovery Year: 1864; 1871
Deposit THE PLAYA IS NEARLY CIRCULAR IN OUTLINE AND HAS AN AREA OF ABOUT 30 SQUARE MILES. THE TOTAL RELIEF OVER THE AREA OF THE PLAYA IS LESS THAN 20 FT. THE SURFACE IS GENERALLY DRY AND ROUGH OR HUMMOCKY AND SALINE MINERALS ARE GENERALLY LACKING AT THE SURFACE EXCEPT IN THE AREA OF THE EARLY BORATE WORKINGS. ULEXITE FORMS COTTON BALLS IN THIN LAYERS 1-6 INCHES BELOW THE SURFACE IN IRREGULAR AREAS AROUND THE MARGIN OF THE PLAYA.
Deposit IN 1875, THE TOWN OF COLUMBUS ON THE NW EDGE OF THE MARSH HAD A POPULATION OF 1000 AND A NEWSPAPER, THE BORAX MINER. BY 1881, HOWEVER, THE POPULATION HAD DWINDLED TO 100. A TOTAL OF 14 AUGER HOLES WERE DRILLED TO 50 FEET DEEP BUT FOUND NO COMMERCIAL AMOUNTS OF POTASH. IN 1913 THE PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. WITHDREW ALL PUBLIC LAND ON COLUMBUS MARSH FROM LOCATION FOR SALINGS UNDER THE FEDERAL MINING LAW. THIS RECORD CONTAINS DATA FROM DUPLICATE RECORDS I000501 OF G. ORRIS AND M035564 OF J.B. FIEBELKORN WHICH HAVE BEEN DELETED FROM MRDS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Deposit QUARTZ VEIN IN CROSS-CUTTING FAULT STRUCTURE. VEIN IS COMPOSED OF BRECCIATED WHITE QUARTZ AND QUARTZITE BRECCIA

Reporter information

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

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