President Clay Deposit

Occurrence in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodity Clay
Sections on this page
  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. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046910
MRDS ID M242138
Record type Site
Current site name President Clay Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.07593, 37.67855 (WGS84)
Elevation 1487
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position EXACT LOCATION UNCERTAIN, To Near Center Of Sec. 15 In Which Deposit Occurs

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Dyer(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Benton Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Mariposa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Fish Lake-Soda Spring Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Esmeralda

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 003S 035E 15 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • NEAR DYER ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Clay Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Clay Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.07593, 37.67855

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Dyer District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Nevada Clay Products
    First year 1960

Comments on development

  • IN 1960, NEVADA CLAY PRODUCTS CONDUCTED SOME DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE ON THE DEPOSIT BUT NO PRODUCTION OR SALES WERE REPORTED

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ALBERS, J.P. AND STEWART, J.H., 1972, NBMG BULL. 78, P.61

  • Deposit

    USBM, 1978, MILS DATA

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-82 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.

Authoritative Nevada resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.