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Moonlight-Silver Moon Claims

Occurrence in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodity 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 10046897
MRDS ID M242123
Record type Site
Current site name Moonlight-Silver Moon Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.30844, 37.95382 (WGS84)
Elevation 2515
Relative position ABOUT 1.8 AIR MILES S 45 E FROM MONTGOMERY PASS ON U.S. RTE. 6.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Montgomery(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Benton Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Mariposa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Crowley Lake(hydrologic unit)

Mono-Owens Lakes(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Inyo National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 001N 033E 09 W2 OF SE Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore
Pyrite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Bleaching, Silicification

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Skarn (Tactite)

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.30844, 37.95382
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 0.91M
    Length 804.65M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • AREA IS ROUGHLY ON TREND OF THE N30E SHEAR ZONE SEEN AT THE WILD ROSE MINE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Buena Vista District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • THERE ARE SEVERAL PITS, CUTS, TRENCHES OVER ABOUT 0.5 MILE ON THE N 70 E STRUCTURE

Comments on development

  • NO ACTIVITY AT TIME OF EXAMINATION IN 1982

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TINGLEY, J.V., 1982, FIELD EXAMINATION ON 14 AUGUST, 1982.

  • Deposit

    STAGER, H.K., TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF NEVADA, NBMG BULL, IN PREPARATION

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit STAGER REPORTS THAT ABOUT 20 TONS OF SCHEELITE-BEARING TACTITE ORE, AVERAGING ABOUT 0.6% WO3 WERE SHIPPED FROM THE PROPERTY IN 1977. ; INFO.SRC : 3 FIELD OBSERV
Deposit OPALITE ALONG N70E BLEACHED, SILICIFIED SHEAR ZONE. WALL ROCK IS BLEACHED VOLCANICS, AND RESEMBLES AN OLD HOT SPRINGS SYSTEM WITH UP TO A 3 FT THICKNESS OF CHALCEDONIC SILICA WITH VUGS, AND PLACED WITH QUARTZ VEINLETS SOME DISSEMINATED PYRITE OCCURS ALONG THE STRUCTURE. IN PLACES, THE ROCK APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN BRECCIATED AND RECEMENTED WITH SILICA

Reporter information

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

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