Usbm Sample Locality #133

Occurrence in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodities Tungsten, Silver, Copper
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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046917
MRDS ID M242146
Record type Site
Current site name Usbm Sample Locality #133

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.3489, 38.79856 (WGS84)
Elevation 2079
Relative position 0.3 MILE ESE OF THE ORIOLE MINE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Minerva Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Garrison(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lund(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Spring-Steptoe 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 White Pine

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 011N 068E 21 SW Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore
Iron Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result 4-FT CHIP SAMPLE ASSAYED 0.47 OZ/T AG
Result 0.11% W

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.3489, 38.79856

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 2.44M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Shoshone (Minerva, Lexington, Tungsten) District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the workings information

  • PROSPECT PIT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USBM, 1983, OPEN FILE REPORT MLA 68-83

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit QUARTZ VEIN-MILKY QUARTZ WITH SEVERAL SPECKS OF MALACHITE AND SOME GOSSAN STRUCTURE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1983 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

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